RAID 0 mit verschiedenen Platten

an und für sich stellts kein problem dar ein raid mit unterschiedlichen festplatten zu machen

1.) die kleinere festplatte begrenzt die kapazität des raids (kleinere platte x2 == raidgrösse)
2.) die langsamere der beiden platten begrenzt den speed (ungeachtet der interface performance, ATA100 und/oder ATA133 is wurscht, die realperformance zählt)

Zitat von epox

wie hoch wird der geschwindigkeitszuwachs sein?
genau 2xPerformance der schwächeren Platte?

Das auf keinen Fall. Und um dich noch weiter deinen Illusionen zu berauben:

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Stop the RAID0 Insanity! 02 July 2004
In February of 2003, we took a brief time-out from our standard, single-drive testing to formally address what we normally refuse to touch with a 12-foot pole- a RAID0 array. Why? The StorageReview Discussion community, mirroring forums around the net, burgeoned with hundreds of posts from readers seeking advice on which RAID adapter to get and which hard drives to stripe for their power rigs.

Simple theory, however, indicated that striping would not significantly help the localized (as opposed to both random and sequential), low-depth usage that dominated even highly-multitasked, single-user scenarios. The best advice, as a result, was to avoid striping. Many readers, however refused to believe.

The February test combined a pair of 200-gig Maxtor DiamondMax 9 drives with a Promise PATA RAID controller and demonstrated that the gains in striping them were minimal especially when one considered that a large portion of what gain there was due to the doubling of capacity and the resulting smaller distances that the actuator must travel to execute the same chain of disk accesses.

There were still objections, irrational as they were:


“It’s only 7200 RPM! 10,000 RPM drives would have done better!”
“It’s only PATA! SATA would have done better!”
“It’s only eye-dee-eee! SCSI would have done better!”
“You tested only two drives! A larger array would have done better!”


And so on.

Our recent TCQ, RAID, SCSI, and SATA article examined the performance of a myriad of controller/interface/drive-count/raid-level combinations that addressed the objections above (though admittedly as a side effect of testing TCQ’s effects on RAID arrays; we do not believe further empirical results were really necessary to back logic and theory). Many readers here at SR and across the net, unfortunately, seemed to have missed the article… though it is extremely relevant to those debating the relative merits or lack thereof of RAID arrays for non-server use. Consider this interesting example:

In the “SR Gaming DriveMark… a 4 drive Cheetah array.. lags a single Raptor running on the "dumbest" of SATA controllers by a margin of 9%.”

If you’re still confused about RAID, you owe it to yourself to check out our review.

Though the idea that RAID0 does not significantly assist desktop performance is not new to SR, AnandTech has recently corroborated the idea with results of their own. Confirming that no significant gain is realized when striping a pair of Raptors off of an ICH5 controller, Anand writes:

"If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer."

Interestingly, the feedback associated with Anand’s article reads like a laundry list of the same irrational objections SR had to overcome. Anand is free, of course, to link to SR’s articles which, ironically, address virtually every objection raised by his RAID0 proponents .

It is our hope that these findings taken as a whole will stem an internet-wide trend where enthusiast-oriented websites blithely incorporate RAID0 into their "high-end" single-user boxes, ignorant to both theory and empirical results.

More discussion may be found here- weigh in with your thoughts!
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(Text von storagereview.com)

Es halten hier noch immer sehr viele was von Raid 0. Ich allerdings bin nach dem sr.com-Artikel schon etwas skeptischer. Außerdem ist ein Raid 0 auch nicht grade das beste in Sachen Datensicherheit.

ich werds trotzdem machen, und meine wichtigsten daten auf eine andere Platte sichern.
thx for help

Die Controller dafür kosten halt ein wenig mehr
und es sind >=3 Platten imho