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General Software Discussion / Re: Are Windows Dynamic Disks Reliable?
« Last post by 4wd on February 25, 2008, 09:05 PM »Humm, wouldn't say RAID STRIPE (I prefer the names to the numbers, to avoid confusion)-f0dder (February 25, 2008, 07:19 PM)
I prefer the numbers for exactly the same reason
But for video editing before the encoding process, sure thing.
From my experience using it with video capture from a digital video camera, it isn't. Capturing to a single drive is no problem because the bandwidth required for capture is well below typical drive throughput, (hence where I said a 4200RPM drive is fast enough - if you have problems capturing, the fault generally lies elsewhere, eg. PIO, background processes). Editing from one source drive to a separate destination drive will beat a RAID 0 array every time simply because there is no drive thrashing. The only way it would be better is to go from one RAID 0 to another RAID 0 and/or using better drives - desktop drives are no match for enterprise drives that are manufactured for the increased requests.
But I dunno how useful it is for stuff other than that, really. "But, game load speeds should drop!" - yeah well, I put the entire of "Thief 3: Deadly Shadows" on a RAM disk, which is plenty faster than the fastest RAID stripe you can muster, and that didn't do anything for game load speed.
I don't think it would change 'game load speed' but what about loading of data during game play? I'm talking about those games that pause every so often to load in the next >200MB resource file.
I don't agree that RAID MIRROR is too much hassle for home setups, and you shouldn't be comparing it to backups - those are two entirely different things. A mirror won't help you against stupid accidents or malware, a good backup solution can do that (if you disconnect the backup location once done). At the other hand, if you only backup once per day, you risk losing a whole day's work if you don't have a mirror.
When I refer to 'home environment' I don't include a business, (which is what your "whole day's work" implies to me), that runs from home - that's no different from a business in a store or a corporation, (except in size), AFAIC - and as such your backup strategy should be more robust.
When I refer to home environment it is reference to the generic home PC that's used for games, internet, the odd word processing, picture collections, etc. For that, I really don't see any need for RAID. Not even for video editing which I do at home on my general purpose PC.
RAID MIRROR and a proper backup strategy goes hand in hand, really.
Yep, no problem with this for business applications, (and those that are just plain paranoid
). But for generic home applications a decent backup setup is more than adequate and a lot less hassle when it comes to restoration in the case of a fault.
When you do that, 4wd, please post it on DC! 
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