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2015/07/04 22:31:28
rogeriodec
Following the idea to achieve a best performance, I would like to know if has anyone using Raid-0?
2015/07/04 22:41:10
BRuys
With the ubiquitous availability of SSDs, I don't think RAID-0 has the same appeal as it once did.
2015/07/04 22:52:27
gswitz
I got an icy dock with two drives and hardware raid zero like ten years ago our so. The performance enhancement was nominal. I just use regular hard drives now. I use the icy dock for backups.
SSDs rock.
2015/07/04 22:54:23
rogeriodec
BRuys
With the ubiquitous availability of SSDs, I don't think RAID-0 has the same appeal as it once did.



From what I know about RAID-0 and the various tests that I have seen, apparently the speed is increased, linearly proportional to the number of units such SSD or HDD, is not it?
2015/07/04 23:14:42
Doktor Avalanche
I mirror myself. I strongly recommend RAID 5 or RAID 1. RAID 0 does not have parity do not recommend. SSD is good but whatever you do backup...
2015/07/04 23:17:35
BRuys
rogeriodec
BRuys
With the ubiquitous availability of SSDs, I don't think RAID-0 has the same appeal as it once did.



From what I know about RAID-0 and the various tests that I have seen, apparently the speed is increased, linearly proportional to the number of units such SSD or HDD, is not it?


Yes, it is, until you saturate the SATA port.  I have been building RAID arrays in servers for 20 years, usually with redundancy (RAID-1, 5, 6, 10, etc).  RAID-0 is fast, but with every additional disk, increases the chance of data loss, as one failed disk means you lose all your data.  If your motherboard supports RAID, great, but keep in mind that many 3rd party RAID chipsets do not properly support TRIM on SSDs.
 
If you need RAID-0, fine, but you would need to be recording many, many tracks to make it worth while in my opinion.
2015/07/04 23:18:58
Doktor Avalanche
I've never seen any case for RAID 0 myself apart from maybe data that isn't important..
2015/07/04 23:23:48
BRuys
Doktor Avalanche
I mirror myself. I strongly recommend RAID 5 or RAID 1. RAID 0 does not have parity do not recommend. SSD is good but whatever you do backup...

RAID-5 suffers slow writes, due to the generation of parity data.  Professional level RAID controllers mitigate this somewhat with a large battery-backed write-cache, but even so, RAID-5 is not usually used with systems that do a large amount of write cycles.  I wouldn't use RAID-5 for a DAW.
2015/07/05 00:31:20
Kev999
rogeriodec
Following the idea to achieve a best performance, I would like to know if has anyone using Raid-0?

 
I've got my multisamples stored on a pair of 74GB Raptor HDDs in a RAID 0 setup. This wasn't part of my original plan, but I happened to pick up these drives cheaply. I have less than 100GB of samples and I keep a backup copy on another drive.

After installing, the first thing I noticed was that SampleTank launches a lot quicker.
2015/07/05 06:46:43
Grem
That's a good idea Kev.
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