ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[Speederlander]

Is it really worth it to even bother setting up a RAID0 array on two 80 gig drives? The benefits of RAID0 to begin with are pretty limited and minute in everyday performance. You don't start seeing the benefits of RAID0 until you start working with transferring large files. I wouldn't even fool with RAID unless I was doing a RAID5 array for the mirroring + performance.

Not worth it, especially for gaming and day to day.

[Mr Footlong]

Not worth it, especially for gaming and day to day.

I do a fair bit more than 'gaming'.

Hemi, I have my P5W64 still, but I really don't know is I can be bothered to try what you tried as I am just fed up of it all lol. I am taking the afternoon off work to try and sort this out again as I don't want to waste the weekend getting more annoyed .

[Speederlander]

I do a fair bit more than 'gaming'.

....which is why I said "and day to day"...and in any event, unless you are moving huge files or are into posting hard drive benchmarks or just want to say you have it and want to spend more cash, RAID 0 is a waste.

[Mr Footlong]

Why is it a waste? Some hard drives can be bought for absolute peanuts and as long as you have a half decent board, gives you a nice performance improvement. As long as you have another way of holding your important data, I see no reason not to stripe with prices the way they are for some drives.

Video encoding is about the most intensive thing that I do with mine but even if I didn't, I wouldn't hesitate to run RAID0.

[JayG30]

Why is it a waste? Some hard drives can be bought for absolute peanuts and as long as you have a half decent board, gives you a nice performance improvement. As long as you have another way of holding your important data, I see no reason not to stripe with prices the way they are for some drives.

Video encoding is about the most intensive thing that I do with mine but even if I didn't, I wouldn't hesitate to run RAID0.

This might be of interest to you.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29
Basically, unless you have the money for the good stuff (ie. RAID controllers) and the real actual need for it then your just adding unneccesary complexity to your system at little to no benefit.

I have to say my experiences over the years echos that of this article.

[zbogorgon]

I can't get setfsb to work with this mobo, am I missing sth ?

[RealTelstar]

I can't get setfsb to work with this mobo, am I missing sth ?

Just today he released a new version that support P5k
http://www13.plala.or.jp/setfsb/

[Ace-a-Rue]

This might be of interest to you.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29
Basically, unless you have the money for the good stuff (ie. RAID controllers) and the real actual need for it then your just adding unneccesary complexity to your system at little to no benefit.

I have to say my experiences over the years echos that of this article.

good article!...his article really talks about an inexperienced user who might not understand the inner workings of Raid...i've been doing raid for years...i now have an expensive raid card...performance is even better...it is snappier opening explorer or anything else over a single drive...the only exception to that is using a single Raptor drive...then, it is comparable in speed.

the biggest difference i see with raid over a single drive is when i install Vista Ultimate...i am done with the installation in about 12-15 minutes.

[Speederlander]

Anyone finding that in an overclocked P5K Dlx, turning on core temp .95 WHILE prime95 is running crashes their comp? I have a quad, so that may factor as well...