Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:21 am
Formerly unknown to me, Windows XP provides free software-based RAID 0. I decided to try it out this weekend, as I'm adding a new drive to a machine.
The basic instructions are here.
Overall, it worked very well, except I made one careless mistake and wiped out one entire drive.
Here is a more comprehensive article from a 3rd party, that even has benchmarking results.
Overall, their results indicate that software and hardware RAID 0 setups are almost equivalent in performance, and either is roughly 25-30% better performing than a single drive.
The basic instructions are here.
Overall, it worked very well, except I made one careless mistake and wiped out one entire drive.
Here is a more comprehensive article from a 3rd party, that even has benchmarking results.
Overall, their results indicate that software and hardware RAID 0 setups are almost equivalent in performance, and either is roughly 25-30% better performing than a single drive.