Sata2 Raid0 Vs. Sata2
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:18 pm
Hey Guys, I have a Gigabyte x58a ud3r Mobo, and here's what I'm thinking:
Right now with my one 120GB Western Digital my boot takes about 1 minute 30 seconds from post to desktop.
I feel like this is way too long.
I'm wondering what kind of performance gain I'd get from striping this 120 with another identical drive in a stripe 0 for my OS and programs.
I would connect these two sata2 drives to the Sata3(will this yield better speed than using sata2 ports?) ports on the mobo, and use a stripe0.
I don't wanna redo all my installing but I'm really feeling like 1:30 is a long boot based on my hardware:
Mobo: Gigabyte x58a-udr3
Ram: 12GB Gskill DDR3 Tri-Channel @ 7-7-7-20 1500mhz
CPU: i7 930 @ 3.3Ghz
Grphx: 1xXFX 5770 1GB & 1x5450 1GB
Displays: 1x37" 1080p LCD / 1x22" LCD / 1x19" LCD
OS: 1x120GB WD Sata2 HDD 8MB Cache
other HDD: 1x400gb Sata2 8MB Cache / 1x500GB Sata2 16MB Cache / 1x250GB Sata2 8MB Cache
the other question I have is, if I was to get 2x30GB SSD and stripe those for my OS only(60GB in the stripe) what would be the potential bottle necks (programs loading from a much slower drive) on my system using a single 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache WD sata2 HDD for programs and back up of the os?
Thanks in advance guys!
-RiE-
Right now with my one 120GB Western Digital my boot takes about 1 minute 30 seconds from post to desktop.
I feel like this is way too long.
I'm wondering what kind of performance gain I'd get from striping this 120 with another identical drive in a stripe 0 for my OS and programs.
I would connect these two sata2 drives to the Sata3(will this yield better speed than using sata2 ports?) ports on the mobo, and use a stripe0.
I don't wanna redo all my installing but I'm really feeling like 1:30 is a long boot based on my hardware:
Mobo: Gigabyte x58a-udr3
Ram: 12GB Gskill DDR3 Tri-Channel @ 7-7-7-20 1500mhz
CPU: i7 930 @ 3.3Ghz
Grphx: 1xXFX 5770 1GB & 1x5450 1GB
Displays: 1x37" 1080p LCD / 1x22" LCD / 1x19" LCD
OS: 1x120GB WD Sata2 HDD 8MB Cache
other HDD: 1x400gb Sata2 8MB Cache / 1x500GB Sata2 16MB Cache / 1x250GB Sata2 8MB Cache
the other question I have is, if I was to get 2x30GB SSD and stripe those for my OS only(60GB in the stripe) what would be the potential bottle necks (programs loading from a much slower drive) on my system using a single 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache WD sata2 HDD for programs and back up of the os?
Thanks in advance guys!
-RiE-