@nflavour No, you can use it . Make another partition in matrix raid, and you can partition it in windows any way you wish... just the first partion of the drives (short stroke) will be extremely fast..
So this means With 4 80GB drive, you'd normally have 300GB for raid 0. but short stroking it would give you only 60GB. What happens to the other 240GB? Rendered useless?
@k24boy123 Ultimate Sweet spot = 45gig slice achieving about 97MB/s Then you have two other options 70gig slice = about 94 MB/s or 130gig slice = about 92 MB/s RAID 0 with four drives using the USP = 388 MB/s SP1 = 376 MB/s SP2 = 368 MB/s
@nflavour No, you can use it . Make another partition in matrix raid, and you can partition it in windows any way you wish... just the first partion of the drives (short stroke) will be extremely fast..
Joeteck 1 year ago
So this means With 4 80GB drive, you'd normally have 300GB for raid 0. but short stroking it would give you only 60GB. What happens to the other 240GB? Rendered useless?
nflavour 1 year ago
what's the sweet spot for 500gb wd caviar blacks?
k24boy123 1 year ago
Joeteck 1 year ago
@k24boy123 I see we have a similar thing going. I just bought 2x 500gb caviar blacks for a build I'm doing for my aunt. ;)
TheCrazyFinn 8 months ago
hi i have 2 ssd on diff capacity do i need a floppy drive for drivers or something
korgpadude 1 year ago
Thanks for the vid :)
I'm getting a x58 3-way classified and am planning on doing 4 WD 640gb Short Stroked as well. I've never done raid b4 so this helped alot.
aslambilal 2 years ago
@aslambilal
640gig sweet spot is 200 gig each! so 800 gig total size. Gonna ROCK!
Joeteck 2 years ago
I've heard 3 drives is better than 4 due to latency stuff but i doubt i'll notice when i have tons of throughput.
aslambilal 2 years ago