Best RAID configuration for a pair of drives for maximum speed.

Feek · 20-12-2007, 10:29

With just two drives, it's gotta be RAID 0 hasn't it? We've been talking about it at work today and a guy here who's always right *sigh* is insisting that RAID 1 will be faster than RAID 0 when using a pair of identical drives but I disagree and think that the latter is better.

Backups or potential disk failures are unimportant, it's just maximum performance that we're interested in.

The OS of the PC in question is Vista x64 Ultimate.

And... In RAID 0, is the total capacity the sum of the two drives or is there any slight loss?

20-12-2007, 10:29	#1
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Best RAID configuration for a pair of drives for maximum speed. With just two drives, it's gotta be RAID 0 hasn't it? We've been talking about it at work today and a guy here who's always right sigh is insisting that RAID 1 will be faster than RAID 0 when using a pair of identical drives but I disagree and think that the latter is better. Backups or potential disk failures are unimportant, it's just maximum performance that we're interested in. The OS of the PC in question is Vista x64 Ultimate. And... In RAID 0, is the total capacity the sum of the two drives or is there any slight loss? __________________

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