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Do I really need a RAID-0??
I’ve just built a new video computer, and I’m having trouble installing the striped SATA RAID-0 drives. The question is this: With computers so much faster than they were three years ago, do I even need a RAID-0?
Here’s what I built:
- ASUS P5B-E motherboard
- Intel Core-2 Duo 6600
- 2-Gig Corsair RAM
- Raptor 10,000 rpm main drive for programs
- Two 500-gig drives (for the RAID I can’t install)
I’d appreciate any advice I can get. If the RAID-0 is not really necessary for capture, rendering, etc., I’ll just skip it and get back to work.
Thanks.
James (seatlanta) -
3 Replies
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Raid is NOT necessary – might be helpful in some circumstances but is not necessary. Still might be worth investigating a little more why it’s not working.
Edward Troxel
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I have used RAID 0 on my machine until just recently.
I changed a few of the hard drives and decided to go back to a JBOD config. I saw no significant advantage of RAID0 on a standard XP machine so see no reason to continue with it.
Other may have varying opinions on the matter
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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I stopped using RAID-0 a year ago. For DV editing, even HDV editing it just isn’t needed especially with the speeds that a SATA-II drive can deliver. So with no performance difference, all you are doing is adding the number of moving parts that can fail on you, putting your data more at risk, unless you also do mirroring.
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