[Imc-tech] hd striping in win2k

[michael dean brunelle]

Increasing access time isn't really a good thing, but the transfer rate
specs on Tom's site look promising.  Access time itself is limited by the
drive hardware (time it takes to get the heads into position - raids don't
help.)  Assuming that the system (which one?) is just going to be handling
big files, rather than serving a bunch of different, small files, the
performance boost may be worth the pain in the ass to get it to work
(which may actually be minimal :-).  Just remember, you lose significant
storage space when you do this, and from what I understand, software raids
are not usually the way you want to go (reliability-wise, etc).

-Mike


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Paul Riismandel wrote:

> Apparently Win2k has built in hd striping for arranging IDE HDs into raid
> 0, which is very useful for audio and video editing, since it greatly
> increases access time and overall datarate, which is one significant delay
> factor when rendering video.
>
> Here's an article on Tom's Hardware Guide about it:
> http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/01q3/010906/index.html
>
> Comments?  I use a SCSI Raid 0 array at work (implemented in hardware), and
> get very good sustained data rates of 18 mb/s, which really speeds up video
> editing work.
>
> --Paul
>
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