Raid 0 Performance

[puppetgrimm1]

I set up a raid 0 set of two harddrives and have recently noticed my computer has slowed down considerable. Anyway with that said I was wondering what I can do too get that extra performance back. Maybe get a new raid card I'm using a cheap one now or could you possible recomend one. Also should i delete the raid set and format the two harddrives start over from scratch. Could it possible be the HardDrive? I have two 80 GB harddrives ones a western digital dont know what the other one is.

Late
Puppetgrimm1

 

[pkroks]

raid is ideally run with two identical harddrives... that could be your problem

 

[puppetgrimm1]

I'm sure that maybe the issue for some harddrives but when I first set up Raid 0 "More then a two years ago" There was an incredible boost in performance at least 20% as an example installing windows XP Pro took only half the time now though It's dragin *** Personal I think its the Raid Card "Cheap one $20" but wanted to see if I could get better performance with some of your suggestions or anybody else.

Thank for your input!
Late
Puppetgrimm1

 

[Nodsu]

Your cheap card is probably "WinRAID" and not true hardware RAID. Basically you have a cheap (slow) IDE controller with drivers doing the striping (using your system CPU and RAM).

 

[puppetgrimm1]

Your cheap card is probably "WinRAID" and not true hardware RAID. Basically you have a cheap (slow) IDE controller with drivers doing the striping (using your system CPU and RAM).

Actually you Maybe right its a silicon image sil 0680 ultra-133 medley ataraid controler. Can you suggest a hardware raid card that would perform better, what I should look for etc...

LAte
Puppetgrimm1