Are RAID hard drives with striping noisy?
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Are RAID hard drives with striping noisy?
Dear Silent PC Gurus,
Should I be concerned about the noise of a RAID hard drive with striping? I am thinking about getting RAID hard drives for performance, but don't want to suffer noise as a side effect.
By the way, does anyone have any thoughts about whether RAID striping will really offer noticeable performance gains if I primarily use Microsoft Office and Compilers?
Thanks,
Don
Should I be concerned about the noise of a RAID hard drive with striping? I am thinking about getting RAID hard drives for performance, but don't want to suffer noise as a side effect.
By the way, does anyone have any thoughts about whether RAID striping will really offer noticeable performance gains if I primarily use Microsoft Office and Compilers?
Thanks,
Don
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I hadn't thought about that. But since I have a Raid-1 and a Raid-0 system with different drive types, I can definitely say that drive type makes more of a difference than the Raid factor (e.g. The samsung Raid is virtually inaudible when accessed, but the Seagates sounds like a drummer).HammerSandwich wrote:Actually, seek noise can be more of a problem in RAID since the drives are synchronized. This will be pretty subjective and depend mainly on the specific components.
Thanks for the advice!
Dear sthayashi and HammerSandwich,
Thanks for the quick reply! I gather that RAID is not necessarily noisy, but it can be so, and that I will not see much performance gain when using Office apps and compilers. So I won't get it.
Thanks again,
Don (vzbt7y)
Thanks for the quick reply! I gather that RAID is not necessarily noisy, but it can be so, and that I will not see much performance gain when using Office apps and compilers. So I won't get it.
Thanks again,
Don (vzbt7y)
For anyone considering using Raid striping - make sure you back up everything of value on the striped drives. I found out the hard way when one of my striped drives died and I lost everything on both. The slight performance benefit certainly wasn't worth the trauma it caused me! It was quiet though, using two Seagate Barracuda IVs (or maybe V's), as I remember.
vzbt7y. The flip side is mirroring, i.e. Raid-1. The performance hit taken is very small. But I can tell you personally that I've taken advantage of Raid-1. There is no way I can describe the feeling you get when you see the message, "Half your Raid-1 array has failed. Would you like to rebuild the array w/ a new drive?" And the thought that if that were a Raid-0, I would cry.