Tech Corner

[MaloK]

To Run windows on ZFS, you need an hypervisor, with Linux 6.14+ kernel. A lot of patience...

Gallons of coffee, and unlimited pizza supply...

But it's not true that RAID0 is not faster... It always crashed twice faster for me.

 

[MaloK]

Question on a new build...

I have never done a R.A.I.D array but am considering doing so when I do the build with 2 1TB NVME M.2 drives striped. This would mean that I would need to add a 2TB NVME M.2 drive to do my clone backups.

I've already searched and found that, yes, you can clone a striped array to a single drive as long as the single drive is large enough to hold the array so no issue there.

My real question is how much performance increase would I see doing a striped array on my system drive? With the front runner as to the motherboard I'm probably going to use it would be a hardware array, not software. I'm sure that boot time would be better but I wonder if I would really see a performance increase once in Windows as to everyday usage.

Serious response... On PCIe nvme drives, Speed factor is additive.

Even with software raid... like ZFS or dynamic disk... But running your OS on that is a high risk of failure... But there is no doubt... If you put 4 drives... It's going to be nearly 4 times faster.

It's often used in servers for high speed data staging area.