ide raid 0 for me?

Zeus2005

Zeus2005

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Hey!

Right, im thinking about putting a Raid 0 on my system, which would mean buying another IDE 200GB HDD, but i have a few questions.

1) Does my mobo support IDE Raid 0 already?, it defo supports SATA but only heard about IDE Raid the other day-reading these forums.

2) Will Raid 0 actually do anything for me? I mostly use my pc for games and downloading files (which means a lot of unzipping etc), I know Raid 0 help with video editing etc but would it speed up Loading OS, loading Games, unzipping files?

3) Does it have to be an identical HDD? (like for dual RAM), or will any 200Gb 8mb cache work fine?

4) Did I miss anything? Oh ye, if I do get IDE raid 0, will I have 400 gb right?

Thanks for your help, my sig has pc spec for mobo etc.
 
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1) Yeah, it should support it with any drives. You might want to double check on Asus's site, though.

2) If you plan to use this a storage, probably not. If you plan to use it as the boot/system drive, things should load faster. Unzipping and all shouldn't go any faster, though, as it's all limited on how fast your processor can actually uncompress stuff.

3) Yes, they will have to be identical.

4) Nothing I can think of right off. Yes, you will have two drives working as one.
 
thanks!, think i might go for it, but not quite clear on the unzipping, if in theory, my processor was x10, 38 ghz, but everything else in the system stayed the same, could i unzip x10 faster? I would have thought there is some limit to how fast you can write the unzipped data back onto the hdd?- or does the unzipping at 3.8 Ghz not reach that limit?
 
I'm not quite sure what your asking... but the thing is, unzipping stuff is a slow process. You could probably unzip from a CD-ROM(or burn to a disk at that) and get the same speed as if you extracted to your HD or whatever.
 
i was kinda asking if the speed a fast pc unzips at is faster than the read/write bandwidth of the HDD. (eg unzip at 100Mbps but can only write/read at 50Mbps) , but from your above post, and after thinking about it for a sec, i guess that id need a fast fast fast pc to unzip faster then hdd can handle.
 
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