Raid 1 set up

[1201sound]

Hi there, I have a mirrored raid set up of two 80 GB drives and I am running Cubase SX on an AMD athlon 3200+, system. I have been told that the raid is quicker than a single drive for audio playback but slower for writing audio-Is this true? What do think is better for music raid or a single drive?

Also does the Raid set up affect the midi side of things?

Any help would be much appreciated

Yours faithfully,

Dax Naylor

[AndyH]

I believe Raid 0 should be faster at both reading and writing. Its major downside is that any significant problem with either drive means you lose the data on both drives, since said data is distributed over both of them.

While raid 0 is usually faster than independent drives, I think you have to be into exceptionally heavy I/O for it to make any practical difference. I don't know just where that is but it will involve quite a few simultaneous tracks. Consider some of the reports here on 5400 vs 7200 rpm single drives
http://www.audiomastersforum.org/amforum/topic-5191.html


Sorry about my confusion over the type you are using, I did not read closely enough. Isn't raid 1 simply mirroring of one drive on another? Writing will indeed be slower since the same data is always written twice. Obviously the data security situation is exactly the opposite of what I stated above.

[Bops2000]

I believe raid anything is of no use to a single daw system.
Perhaps the issue would arise with multiple daws, or daw and slave for
vst's, dxi bound within a LAN may be of use....
I tried messin with a raid 0 within my daw for giggles, and found it of no use as well as a bit volatile.
Noise from the trenches...
be good

[ab420]

Raid 0 can offer big performance improvements, but not really is audio, more in moving large files and in bootup times. It is also volatile (as said before), so I wouldn't trust it with audio. I've had RAID 0 drives corrupt on me before and that can really suck.

[1201sound]

Thanks everyone for your replies on raid I have some new ideas now.Cheers!