raid-0 setup...

[DiViNeLeFT]

im ordering another 40gig drive as well as a dc10+ capture card... once it comes in im going to setup a raid-0 array with another 40gig drive i already have... what is the ideal stripe and cluster sizes for setting up a raid-0 array that will primarilly be used for capturing?

[D_Knife]

Go with large stripe sizes, over 128KB if your RAID card supports it. After all your not catching SMALL files
Just a question, the Pinnacle cards all seem to have problems with IDE RAID controllers,
They drop frames like flies in the sun.
I haven't heard of problems with SCSI based RAID controllers though.

[heathcot]

I have setup two 40GB drives as raid-0. Using the built in sofware provided by win2000, and now winXP. Used standard settings for everything and got it up and working no worries. Have had no problems with the configuration and get up to about 50MB/s write speed. Not bad for a couple of 5400RPM drives, and more than enough to not have any trouble with capturing/editing/playback.

[M.I.B.]

Use Raid cad based on the Highpoint PT310 chipset. rock solid. Been running one for over 2 years now.
ATA-100 running a Raid -0 (JBOL) drive of 240 Gbyte on NTFS
( 4x IBM 60 gig drives ). without a single hickkup.

iWill makes good cards alo aBIT has one.
Raid is built in hardware setup during boot. all you do is select drives and tell it to build the JBOL drive

JBOL stands for Joint Block of Large Drives . this is aka RAID-0. Raid -0 is not really RAID since there is no R ( Redundancy ). RAID-0 is only AID.

[DiViNeLeFT]

so i am to understand that i should go to the highest size supported by my raid chip?? does anyone know the highest stripe and cluster sizes supported by the highpoint 370 chipset?

[VideoPhreak]

Been editing for almost 10 years now and using RAID 0 for the last 8 of that at least, I have always used a 512K stripe size on all my drives where I had the luxury of choosing a stripe size, however on my PC using an EPOX 8K7A+ mobo the raid utility is built in and limits the stripe to 128K, I do not however use the machine for capture and edit but will be using it for compression and encoding as a test bed and speed comparison to my current Mac based systems. SO to answer your question MY EXPERIENCE is a 512K stripe size for high data rate capture (300KB) works flawlessly and should be bulletproof for you as well. hope this helps