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Post August 14th, 2009, 6:14 am

i have my drives in raid 0 right now and start times are like 3 mins. i have 2 wd green drives and i am thinking they are just as fast as if i did not raid..

i am about to format my pc and i wanted to know should i keep the raid 0 config?
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Post August 14th, 2009, 6:14 am

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Post August 14th, 2009, 6:30 am

RAID0 is supposed to increase read/write performance. If you don't think it is any faster than don't do it. The bad thing about RAID0 is if one drive dies you lose the whole array.
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Post August 14th, 2009, 6:41 am

ya losing the whole array is not a problem.. i have a back up system each night.
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Post August 19th, 2009, 9:06 am

is this on a personal computer or a server of some sort? If personal, why would you need it to be RAID 0?
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