RAID 0 and the formatting of Partitions - Crossposted

From: Stephen (replies_at_newsgroups.thnx)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:59:50 GMT

Thank you for reading. I know this will seem fussy on my part but I like to
see what I can do here.

I've set up a RAID 0 with a pair of Maxtor SATA drives on an Intel P4 mobo.
It works very well. But some questions came to mind during the setup
process.

I had to establish the striped *before* installing the OS. This involved
going into the bios, selecting the drives for the stipe and interestingly
enough selecting the --size-- of the stripe i.e. one of 32, 64, or 128 kB!
This is before either partitioning or formatting! The process turned two
harddrives into one 'drive'.

So I choose 128 for performance then started the Windows install process.

Through the facilities Windows provides I was able to change the active
partition and get Windows onto something other than a 4KB cluster formated
NTFS partition. Windows got installed on an NTFS partition formatted with
32KB clusters on my 128 KB striped RAID 0 'drive'.

To be honest, I do not have a clue as to what is going on. Does each 32KB
cluster take up 128KB of harddrive space? Should I have arranged for the
NTFS partiton to be formatted with 128KB clusters [ the Disk Management
option however only allows up to 64KB].

How are the 32KB clusters 'split' across the RAID 0 stripe?

Maybe I should have chosen a 64KB RAID 0 stripe then formatted NTFS with
64KB clusters?

BTW because the RAID 0 was set up *before* Windows was installed I didb't
have to upgrade the disks to dynamic.

Any insights welcome - and thanks.

Stephen

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