[Pc_Support] Re: Fastest Hard Drive Access for Large (Video) Files

[Bryan J. Smith]

David Simmons <dsimmons at powersmiths.com> wrote:
> Maybe on newer motherboards...but again, this is not one of
> them...just PCI bus with SATA built-on....It's a
> Gigabyte...hmmm...GA-7N400VPro I think.

nForce2.  Yeah, it's probably on the PCI bus.

IIRC, only the NIC in the nForce2, 3, 4/Pro series are a
native HyperTransport peripheral.

> So...that would mean a RAID-0 setup?

RAID-0 and RAID-3 (including NetCell RAID-XL) are definitely
geared towards sequential reads/writes.  So in that setup,
look to the density of commodity disk.

RAID-1 and RAID-10 are great for random reads, and if the
files are smaller, RAID-4 is even better.  All are fairly
good at writes, especially larger writes.

RAID-5 is best for lots of random reads and small writes.


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