zulu
March 6th, 2007, 11:23 AM
Hey guys I'm having a tough time trying to decide whether I should put a couple drives I just got in raid-0. Thought I'd see if any of you have some experience with this.
I've done a lot of reading about it, but one thing I'm unclear about is the stripes. I can set the stripe size to 4K, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 with my on-board promise controller. Here's the thing, I seem to remember something about if you write a file that is less than the size of the stripe, you lose space. Is this right? Of course now I can't find the information again... For example, if I write a 8K file and I'm set up with 128K stripes, do I lose 120K when the stripe is sent to one of the drives?? I know this isn't much, but repeat it a thousands of times...and...seems it could add up to a lot. BUT maybe I'm totally wrong about this?
(i read that larger stripes are better for video editing, so I'd like to make the stripe size bigger than, say, 8K...but I'm also going to have windows, games, and other various on the same setup...so trying to find the best "compromise" here...)
I've done a lot of reading about it, but one thing I'm unclear about is the stripes. I can set the stripe size to 4K, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 with my on-board promise controller. Here's the thing, I seem to remember something about if you write a file that is less than the size of the stripe, you lose space. Is this right? Of course now I can't find the information again... For example, if I write a 8K file and I'm set up with 128K stripes, do I lose 120K when the stripe is sent to one of the drives?? I know this isn't much, but repeat it a thousands of times...and...seems it could add up to a lot. BUT maybe I'm totally wrong about this?
(i read that larger stripes are better for video editing, so I'd like to make the stripe size bigger than, say, 8K...but I'm also going to have windows, games, and other various on the same setup...so trying to find the best "compromise" here...)