Formatting For Best Performance

Elite Knight

Elite Knight

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Ok sorry for being annoying but im ganna format my drives once my OEM disc arrives.
I need to know what would be the best optition for top performance.

Raid Settings
RAID 0
128KB Strip
It said in raid settings this is for top performance.

64KB for the other not sure what it was.

Also should i remove the RAID and then do a full format then low level or just leave the RAID as it is.

And what should i make it RAID 0 RAID 1 or RAID 5 for performance. I'm a gamer.
 

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RAID 0 is fast but not safe. I would do RAID 1 for fault tolerance. I only use 64K stripes on my SCSI and SAS raid.
 

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Is it fast for you on RAID 1.
 

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i agree raid 0 would be the best bet for performance but you could run raid 5 for a mix that way if one of the drive fails you dont lose your data.....but that also depends how many drives are you using? need at least 3 for raid 5
 

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Only got 2 500GB drives. So i should make it RAID 1.
 

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yea raid 1 would be your best bet if you still want some fault tolerance
 

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Ok i might try RAID 1 but im not fussed on losing data because most of my files i can get back because i save them on exernals. i'l try both.
 

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Elite Knight said:
Ok i might try RAID 1 but im not fussed on losing data because most of my files i can get back because i save them on exernals. i'l try both.
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well then in that case by all means play with some raid 0 lol. good timess:cool:
 

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I was told my a friend RAID 1 is more reziliant and smoth so i'l make it 1.
 
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    Nvidia Geforce GTX260 1GB Edition
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The resilience comes from the fact that RAID 1 is fault tolerant and rebuildable if a drive goes down....which is what Mike and MisterWilkie already said....
 

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I would RAID 0 and mirror back up periodical with external you have. My RAID 0 never break down for for over a year. You may format the RAID or rebuilt it which makes no different. 64 kb is good.
 

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