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Does Windows stripped partition use more CPU?

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So right now I have 2 1TB drives set up as a stripped partition in windows, I notices fairly high usage while loading games on the CPU when loading from this drive, since this is a software based RAID could that be the issue?

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1 minute ago, APasz said:

Yes. Because your not using a dedicated raid controller, the cpu is doing it's job.

What mobo do you have? If it's relatively modern, it probably supports hardware raid.

the raid on a mobo sucks, it still uses the cpu, its not a hardware controller

 

Raid uses very little cpu(less than 1%, don't worry about it.

 

ALso id suggest usign storage spaces, not striped in disk mgmt.

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7 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

So right now I have 2 1TB drives set up as a stripped partition in windows, I notices fairly high usage while loading games on the CPU when loading from this drive, since this is a software based RAID could that be the issue?

What's the CPU? My 4790K isn't impacted noticeably with 2x 128GB SSD in RAID 0 through Windows.

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2 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

What's the CPU? My 4790K isn't impacted noticeably with 2x 128GB SSD in RAID 0 through Windows.

Xeon E3-1220 its about the equivalent of a Sandy Bridge i5 or a mobile Haswell i7. and my mobo does have a raid controller but I would have to reinstall windows.

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4 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

Xeon E3-1220 its about the equivalent of a Sandy Bridge i5 or a mobile Haswell i7. and my mobo does have a raid controller but I would have to reinstall windows.

what raid card? its very unlikey to have a hardware raid card.

 

Raid uses almost no cpu, you won't notice the difference. It will use less than 1% of the cpu.

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what raid card? its very unlikey to have a hardware raid card.

 

Raid uses almost no cpu, you won't notice the difference. It will use less than 1% of the cpu.

It's just an intel board with a RAID controller built in. DQ67OW that's the board.

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what raid card? its very unlikey to have a hardware raid card.

 

Raid uses almost no cpu, you won't notice the difference. It will use less than 1% of the cpu.

I thought PCH handled it? Heh..

idk

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Just now, Renton577 said:

It's just an intel board with a RAID controller built in. DQ67OW that's the board.

you don't have a raid card, thats just mobo/chipset raid. It sucks don't use it. Use the raid in your os.

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9 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

Xeon E3-1220 its about the equivalent of a Sandy Bridge i5 or a mobile Haswell i7. and my mobo does have a raid controller but I would have to reinstall windows.

I'd say its just the game then. Even my X5450 (Sandybridge i3 equivalent at stock/3GHz) has no problems (albeit I have only run 2x 200GB SATA1 HDD and 2x IDE 250GB in RAID with it).

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you don't have a raid card, thats just mobo/chipset raid. It sucks don't use it. Use the raid in your os.

OS RAID has more overhead, and is a bit worse than RAID 0 done through the chipset (which is bootable)....or for example a Marvel 88SE9XX controller (also bootable).

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Just now, Dabombinable said:

I'd say its just the game then. Even my X5450 (Sandybridge i3 equivalent at stock/3GHz) has no problems (albeit I have only run 2x 200GB SATA1 HDD and 2x IDE 250GB in RAID with it).

That may be the case, I just did a test and it looks like the CPU doesn't noticeably change between basic background load

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you don't have a raid card, thats just mobo/chipset raid. It sucks don't use it. Use the raid in your os.

Looks like I'll stick with software, then if I swap mobos I will be able to keep the raid

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Just now, Dabombinable said:

OS RAID has more overhead, and is a bit worse than RAID 0 done through the chipset (which is bootable)....or for example a Marvel 88SE9XX controller (also bootable).

but software raid can also give you many benfits, like file checksumming, easy snapshots, being able to use it in any system.

 

Id use software raid if it isn't a boot drive.

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