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The world of Raid Drives is new to me.
Mac Pro 2.6gb
I have 1 x 250gb boot drive. Catalyst application.
2 x 250gb striped Raid Pair (500gb) where media is stored.
I have been reading up on raid drives and I am wondering if I would be better with a mirrored raid config.
It is my understanding that this would improve seek times.
I am also wondering if this would help when sending same content to 2 outputs.
raids are not that useful unless you need uncompressed footage -for a specialised application.
there is also quite a bit of difference in the tested performance of raid sets with different drives-
suggest if you are serious you try using 10000rpm raptors in your raid
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but really - for the most part - you are better off with a single fast scsi drive.
in fact - with your setup - you should test with your raid - then test without the raid - just use a single sata drive.
do you see any difference?
It would be interesting to know. My guess is that a single raptor would be quicker than a 2 x 7200 SATA RAID. Happy to be proved wrong though;-)
Cheers
Toby