Max and Raid

[k-arts]

Hi there,

here a technical Q!

I got in my system now an additional Raid. How should i configure this system to make an optimum worksurrounding (+ rendering )

Is there anything important what u guys can share?

i got a Leadtec 4600 TI in spare. Wasn't there a possibility to push it limits?

Sorry for my "knowing nothing" !

da mike

[mike.edel]

well, depends on what type of raid you have

raid 0 means that 2 (or more) disks are striped with no backup (data is written in portions to each drive, and read from these the same) giving you higher disk performance but less data security (the chance that a disk fails multiplies with each disk, if that happens everything is lost)

raid 0 is fastest

another common form of raid is raid 5 where data is striped too but parity data to reconstruct data loss (due to failure of a drive) is saved on each disk (minimum 3 disks)

raid 5 is slower but safer (gets faster with every disk used, and is always faster than a single disk)

raid has advantages when it comes to disk access times/data transfer rates -
so if you are editing videos/sound use the raid as storage
a raid 0 with 3 drives should handle 2 uncompressed streams of pal video (each 25Mb/s) without problems - thats difficult if not impossible with a single drive

also you might put the windows swap file on the raid for higher performance when using a lot of ram (rendering for example)

hope this helps,
mike