Re: Does WME work with 64 bit OS and CPU ??

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Ive read ive asked Raid is a Waste of time.


On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:11:23 -0500, "Chris P. [MVP]"
<msdn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 30 Dec 2005 21:47:14 -0800, spam-jobrien-less wrote:
>
>> Raid 0 is slow, Raid 5 is fast. I've been told the newest replacement
>> for Raid 5 is Raid 3, which is faster, better, and fixes some striping
>> issues with Raid 5. To overcome a hard drive bottleneck on your
>> encoding use Raid 5 or 3 if you have it.
>
>Not true. You might want to re-evaluate the benchmarks.
>
>RAID-0 strip gives almost 100% speed improvement for each drive in the
>strip set. There is no fault tolerance.
>
>RAID-5 is for security not performance, it can handle a single drive
>failure. In most cases you only see a moderate improvement in performance
>due to the large striping size. In random access it will perform worse
>than a single drive. RAID-3 improves on that by using a byte level strip
>but has it's own set of drawbacks such as a dedicated parity drive.
>
>If you don't mind a pop-up ad or 2 you can compare the different RAID
>categories here.
>http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/

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