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Looking to squeeze a bit more speed out of my development PC for test VMs without necessarily switching to hardware RAID. I've got two identical 2TB SATA-3 data drives (OS is on SSD) so I could rebuild as a Windows 10 striped disk (using disk manager) or create a Windows 10 storage pool with a simple space.
Any suggestions for which would give the best performance? I've always understood that Windows software RAID was pretty poor (although probably better than non-striped) but that was compared to hardware RAID. Can't find much which compares software RAID to storage spaces.
And yes, it's all backed up so not overly worried about the inherent risks with RAID-0 – munrobasher – 2016-11-01T22:11:08.673
What inherent risks do you believe exists with RAID 0? You understand that Windows cannot be installed on a Storage Space right? "I've always understood that Windows software RAID was pretty poor" You have miss inderstood, software RAID performance, on Windows is fine, – Ramhound – 2016-11-01T22:22:00.817
3That there is no redundancy from disk failure – munrobasher – 2016-11-01T22:27:45.340
You have quoted me out of context - I said "software RAID was pretty poor compared to hardware RAID". I have since found this post which has the line "Windows software RAID has a bad reputation, performance wise, and even Storage Space seems not too different" http://serverfault.com/questions/685289/software-vs-hardware-raid-performance-and-cache-usage
– munrobasher – 2016-11-01T22:34:22.283It's not different because it's basically RAID 0/1/01 replacement – Ramhound – 2016-11-01T22:43:12.423