Paz75
lol, i second that. i have all my gear on a raid 1 nas for backup as well... a nerd can never be too careful.
Posted Thu 10 Jan 08 @ 11:39 pm
halo_djk
I hada 360GB WD drive that crapped it after 1 month, this was on my music server (Backup) was not happy. Loaded into windows one day, clicked IE, blue screen, on reboot all partittions had vanished! Store tried charging me $50 for no fault found fee, spoke to WD directly in Australia, they knew of the fault, and arranged a RA no, and 2 months later (Of having to just run the server on a 10GB drive) the replacment finally turned up!
Posted Fri 11 Jan 08 @ 3:04 am
andyc
hi There,
I am currently optimizing my system at the moment and would like some advice regarding getting the best performance.
I only know of the concept of how RAID works, but have a few questions if someone could help spend 5 mins and help me understand what to do to get the best performance out of my system.
My Laptop (precision M90 dell with dedicated VDJ OS WIN XP Pro) is a a dedicated VDJ pro machine at the moment but there is still some issues sometimes with reading and crackles which occurs after a few hours of rinsing tunes. ( I Have done everything under the sun in terms of optimizing my OS settings for running VDJ)
I would like a RAID 0 setup to try take it to its full potential.
My questions are:
1) Once I get a RAID 0 setup, do I install my operating software and VDJ on the RAID drive?
2) Do I also store my tunes on the RAID drive as well?
Sorry if I am asking noobish questions.. not very computer savy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew
I am currently optimizing my system at the moment and would like some advice regarding getting the best performance.
I only know of the concept of how RAID works, but have a few questions if someone could help spend 5 mins and help me understand what to do to get the best performance out of my system.
My Laptop (precision M90 dell with dedicated VDJ OS WIN XP Pro) is a a dedicated VDJ pro machine at the moment but there is still some issues sometimes with reading and crackles which occurs after a few hours of rinsing tunes. ( I Have done everything under the sun in terms of optimizing my OS settings for running VDJ)
I would like a RAID 0 setup to try take it to its full potential.
My questions are:
1) Once I get a RAID 0 setup, do I install my operating software and VDJ on the RAID drive?
2) Do I also store my tunes on the RAID drive as well?
Sorry if I am asking noobish questions.. not very computer savy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew
Posted Sun 23 Mar 08 @ 2:56 am
Paz75
ok, just in case you dont already know, raid 0 is called striping. that means data is spread across 2 drives at the same time. this doubles the read/write speed because it means both are active for 1 operation. raid 1 is called mirroring which means 2 drives have the identical read/write operations. it performs the same as 1 drive, but is used for backup purposes because if data is corrupted on 1 drive, it should be fine on the second.
raid 0 is usefull for high performance applications but it is half as reliable as 1 drive and 1/4 reliable as raid 0. this is because it takes 2 drives to have 1 file. that increases the chance of corruption errors by 100%. if you dont have a solid backup plan in place, i dont suggest using raid 0 until you figure that out. the chances of loosing data are high, especially on laptops. however, it is very usefull for a working dj who does video and is quite agressive with mixing style. it will handle very well.
its also useful that the o/s is installed across the raid0 drives because your o/s loads twice as quick.
now, the difficulty about raid drives is this. a raid controller is needed to partition the drives. the o/s also needs drivers in order to use the raid controller. this means you need to install the o./s from scratch on the raid drives. you cannot upgrade in the middle of an installed o/s.
the second tricky bit is getting the actual drivers for the raid controller. when you install xp, there is a point where you need to press F6. this stops the installation at one point so you can specify the raid controller drivers. to do this, you need a floppy drive connected to the machine because the stupid Xp setup only recognizes extra drivers in drive A: (which does not include the CD or DVD. it also does not work from a USB stick.
if you dont have a floppy disk like me, this means you need to do something called slipstreaming. this is the process of rebuild the o/s install disk to include boot drivers like the raid controller. its also useful for preinstalling service packs and hotfixes so you dont have to do it once the o/s is installed. when you check out o/s installers from torrent sites, you'll notice that they mention 'latest service packs'. this means it was slipstreamed. the last useful thing about slipstreaming is that you can add performance hacks to it like disbling disk caching and 'last accessed' attribute writes and many many more.
if you need to slipstream an o/s installer you can check this software: nLite at http://www.nliteos.com/
its fairly straight forward but you might need to spend a few days with trial and error creation of a slipstreamed disk that suits your needs. the part about getting your custom driver for the raid controller is a bit tricky and involves getting the driver downloaded and identifying which one it is. there are lots of sites that have good info on this if you google 'slipstreaming'
raid 0 is usefull for high performance applications but it is half as reliable as 1 drive and 1/4 reliable as raid 0. this is because it takes 2 drives to have 1 file. that increases the chance of corruption errors by 100%. if you dont have a solid backup plan in place, i dont suggest using raid 0 until you figure that out. the chances of loosing data are high, especially on laptops. however, it is very usefull for a working dj who does video and is quite agressive with mixing style. it will handle very well.
its also useful that the o/s is installed across the raid0 drives because your o/s loads twice as quick.
now, the difficulty about raid drives is this. a raid controller is needed to partition the drives. the o/s also needs drivers in order to use the raid controller. this means you need to install the o./s from scratch on the raid drives. you cannot upgrade in the middle of an installed o/s.
the second tricky bit is getting the actual drivers for the raid controller. when you install xp, there is a point where you need to press F6. this stops the installation at one point so you can specify the raid controller drivers. to do this, you need a floppy drive connected to the machine because the stupid Xp setup only recognizes extra drivers in drive A: (which does not include the CD or DVD. it also does not work from a USB stick.
if you dont have a floppy disk like me, this means you need to do something called slipstreaming. this is the process of rebuild the o/s install disk to include boot drivers like the raid controller. its also useful for preinstalling service packs and hotfixes so you dont have to do it once the o/s is installed. when you check out o/s installers from torrent sites, you'll notice that they mention 'latest service packs'. this means it was slipstreamed. the last useful thing about slipstreaming is that you can add performance hacks to it like disbling disk caching and 'last accessed' attribute writes and many many more.
if you need to slipstream an o/s installer you can check this software: nLite at http://www.nliteos.com/
its fairly straight forward but you might need to spend a few days with trial and error creation of a slipstreamed disk that suits your needs. the part about getting your custom driver for the raid controller is a bit tricky and involves getting the driver downloaded and identifying which one it is. there are lots of sites that have good info on this if you google 'slipstreaming'
Posted Sun 23 Mar 08 @ 5:09 am
SC300
What are raids?
Posted Mon 24 Mar 08 @ 5:45 pm
djphenominal
It's when the cops surround the building and ask everyone to come out with their hands up :P
Posted Mon 24 Mar 08 @ 6:59 pm
101010101
djphenominal wrote :
It's when the cops surround the building and ask everyone to come out with their hands up :P
LOL exactly ;p
Posted Mon 24 Mar 08 @ 8:07 pm
Paz75
lol, tear gas is optional....
RAID is essentially a controller for using more than one hard drive together. as explained raid 0 is using two drives as one, together. this means that one file is written to 2 drives at the same time. since the speed of data read/write depends on how fast the drive is, you can double read/write speeds because it writes the data to both places at the same time for 1 file. raid 1 is opposite. it uses two drives for the same thing, which means the file is in 2 places at the same time (the whole file). this is for safety purposes since 1 drive could die at some point or data be corrupted.
there are raid formats from 0 to 5, all with different configurations. you can even get raid 0+1 which requires 4 drives (stripe and mirror at same time).
if you want a serious performance machine, you should look at raid. laptops these days can come with raid, depending on the model. but if you choose raid 0, you need to first have a backup plan otherwise you are just being silly and asking for data to be corrupted.
RAID is essentially a controller for using more than one hard drive together. as explained raid 0 is using two drives as one, together. this means that one file is written to 2 drives at the same time. since the speed of data read/write depends on how fast the drive is, you can double read/write speeds because it writes the data to both places at the same time for 1 file. raid 1 is opposite. it uses two drives for the same thing, which means the file is in 2 places at the same time (the whole file). this is for safety purposes since 1 drive could die at some point or data be corrupted.
there are raid formats from 0 to 5, all with different configurations. you can even get raid 0+1 which requires 4 drives (stripe and mirror at same time).
if you want a serious performance machine, you should look at raid. laptops these days can come with raid, depending on the model. but if you choose raid 0, you need to first have a backup plan otherwise you are just being silly and asking for data to be corrupted.
Posted Mon 24 Mar 08 @ 10:25 pm
SC300
hey kamakuakane.....where did u get ur computer case tower...................does anyone know where to get computer towers made for djing?
Posted Thu 27 Mar 08 @ 10:53 am