just- Posted November 5, 2005 CID Share Posted November 5, 2005 Hi there guys i have two HD at the moment and i am about to raid0 them does any one know of a good program to benchmark my HD properly before i raid them. i want to do this after raid also and see the benefits thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptors892004 Posted November 5, 2005 CID Share Posted November 5, 2005 if you want to test their max speed, nero has a function built-in to test all drives' speed (including cd-rw, dvd-rw, etc).. if you go to File -> Preferences -> Cache , you can test the drives' speed there.. if that is not what you meant by benchmarking, then what do you want to test the hdds for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Steve Posted November 5, 2005 CID Share Posted November 5, 2005 I might not be 100% right on this. But I think a raid setup needs to use the same type of HD's or it will defalt to the slowest one. I would do a little more research before trying this kind of setup. By all rights's, if you are going to use RAID as a backup system, you might be just as well off with a good backup program. If you are trying to write to both drives at the same time. I don't think you will see that much improvement, being that todays drives are running fairly fast. RAID was a big help several years ago. Just some thoughts I had in the back of my head when I researched it years ago. RAID is still being used in big networks to guarantee a backup copy. But this is the kind of situation where they would be using 10 to 100+ drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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