Serial Raid Question

[kittyfire]

I had the following question posed to me recently:

"I'm running an xp 2500 bart, 1 (2x512) gig 2700 ddr dual channel, 128mb Ti4200 agp 8x. As a general upgrade, I want to move up to serial raid stripe (currently just an 80 gig ata 7200rpm drive). Will going serial raid add any improvement to my EQ experience? My thinking is that my HDD is the current bottleneck."

My answer was I felt the overall improvement he would see would be negligible. Is anyone more familiar with serial raid that may have more insight on this?

[EvErY_DaY]

if you put the stuff on 0 raid it will be unstable but insainly fast
And if you need speed get 2 raptor 10,000 rpm serial ata hd run just as fast as a 15,000 scsi drive
put on 0 raid

[crjdriver]

You will see some improvement, however you will not see double the speed. I went to a raid setup on my 2600+ with 1024 of ram; there was a noticeable improvement.

[KHT]

I`ve setup 2 machines using SATA RAID0 and the increase in performance I`ve seen is awsome, in certain respects.

As far as performance vs data stability with a striped set? The answer is simple, run regularly scheduled back ups and your data is as secure as using a single IDE drive. If back up poses a problem such as not having a network or removable device to back up to, run the OS and apps on a striped RAID array and store critical data on a separate IDE drive. This will at least increase the stability of your data in the event of a failed RAID drive but you will still enjoy the increased performance of the striped array.

I can`t stress enough the importance of running back ups no matter what your drive storage configuration is.

[EvErY_DaY]

Originally posted by KHT I`ve setup 2 machines using SATA RAID0 and the increase in performance I`ve seen is awsome, in certain respects. Very true I can`t stress enough the importance of running back ups no matter what your drive storage configuration is.

just the truth some more