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.
In truth the more advance file systems have existed in fragments since the late 1990's zfs which started in 2001 was sun's response to netapp which started in 1992 (we're talking about the filesystem not the products); problem is that places like ms held the industry back because well they were backwards - after all monopoly has nothing to do with being technically advanced; rather it has to do with lots of fud and telling users third party software might crash with data loss.LOL! I have to admit that I have no idea as to what you just said but then I shut down my business in 2009 and have, since, not really kept up.
To add to my last post about not liking a Mirror array when I co a manual clone I then use Disk Management to take the clone drive off-line and put it back on-line when doing a new clone. Probably not total protection for the clone drive but another security layer.
Not sure if I'm right but many of these projects that go nowhere are actually used as tax deductions. Say MS spends a million on a project that goes nowhere... This becomes a tax deduction.
I know 2nd hand that MS has had some wonderful projects from their labs like a java jvm that was light years ahead of existing versions (at that time); BUT marketing kills them as products for various reasons. I can't say about today but in the past MS labs had some extremely talented people.
none - waste of money. The bigger problem is finding drives that can sustain gen 2 rates without throttling due to heat build up. A lot of it is marketing bullshit esp when you consider how windows is actually reading/writing data (chunk size).Well now that it isn't likely that I'll do a Striped RAID on my upcoming new build I have another question.
My current main system's motherboard has 1 M.2 gen 3 slot and 1 M.2 gen 2 slot. I have 3 gen 4 1TB M.2 drives. The motherboard I've been looking at has 1 gen 5 M.2 slots and 3 gen 4 M.2 slots. Just how much performance increase would I see in real time if I also bought a 1 TB gen 5 M.2 drive put in the gen 5 slot over having one of my gen 4 drives as system? Of course the gen 5 would be faster but would I really see the difference with normal operation?
Another question would involve the video. I already have the video card that will go in the new build which is PCIe gen 4. The motherboard I'm looking at also has on-board video stated as
"Integrated AMD RDNA™ graphics (Actual support may vary by CPU)- 1 x HDMI 2.1 TMDS/FRL 8G Compatible, supports HDR, HDCP 2.3 and max. resolution up to 4K 120Hz".
The video card I'd be using on the main computer display is an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT series. Seems like a great card but gives some issues that are directly related to some VERY old games I play. What happens is when I'm streaming to my larger display and open an old game on the smaller display it often throws the video stream half way off the screen. I'm thinking I may use the 6700 XT only to send to my main computer display using the on-board video for my streaming to the larger screen. I would think that using separate outputs to each display would likely solve the video issue. Is my thing logical?
Actually this build probably won't happen until after Christmas so what I'm now thing could be totally different when the time comes. I'm planning for after Christmas as I really have no issues going on and may get some sale prices after Christmas.
Heat is always the enemy which is one of the reasons I run my desktops with the side case panel removed. Heat on the M.2 drives is one of the things I like about the motherboard I'm looking at as it has pretty heavy duty M.2 heat sinks. Example image will be at the end.
You lack information - are you going ot take a live disk and move it to the new system? If so windows sometimes have the right drivers and sometime doesn't - if it doesn't things can go bad quickly given how shitty windows handle such. Windows 10 did improve on these things but it is still a backward piece of garbage running 20 years behind state of the art.
You may have some work to do. Refering to disks by their drive letter is no longer the only way on MS OS's. This is used inconsistently within the registry (even by MS internal tools).
