Few Q's About Setting/Buying A Raid.

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If I do go threw with it I am going to buy 2 drivers 500GB x 2 7200rpm 32mb Cache ones. I'm going to put them in Raid 0 and I have a external backup driver. Thing is I read up on everything and sometimes see there's barely a difference and there is at times. I use my computer mostly for gaming alot. I have a EVGA nForce 680i A1 version motherboard. I am also reading up on people saying to get a raid card but I am using a pci-express slot for my video card. Basically what it comes down to is will it be a huge difference or one that's barely noticeable. Almost forgot I am using a 74Gb 10,000 Rpm Raptor for windows based and a 250Gb 7200rpm 16mb cache for all the massive game installations. Should I just get another raptor or do something different. Only want to be faster ;) . Also I don't have a floppy installed but I do have a external Usb one will that work? Sorry for the bunch of q's answer 1 or answer all it will be greatly greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.
 
Hmm I was just thinking that if I buy another 74GB raptor and put it in raid 0 since I already own one wont it benefit me?. And i also only put game data on them so lets say 7-11GB for OS I will have plenty of space for gam data. Think that better or would be worse?
 
JKownz said:
Hmm I was just thinking that if I buy another 74GB raptor and put it in raid 0 since I already own one wont it benefit me?. And i also only put game data on them so lets say 7-11GB for OS I will have plenty of space for gam data. Think that better or would be worse?
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I would get a second Raptor, since you already have one, what the heck; if you did not have any, I would say go without 7200.11s or a newer technology, but you will notice RAID 0 on 2 Raptors right away!!!
 
Well its either buy the 74Gb raptor and go raid 0 with 2 of those or go 2 X 500GB Segate 7200.11 32Mb cache on Raid 0. My friend would buy my old hard drives off me. What you guys think is best/most optimal way of going?. Price is not really the issue.
 
So your options are RAID0 or RAID0? Doesn't sound like much of a choice to me.

My system drive is full of non-essential data, stuff that's not even worthy of a backup, yet I'd still be sufficiently pissed to incur downtime due to failure that I'll never recommend the meager performance increase of RAID0 when the tradeoff is doubling your risk of failure. You might do some light reading on the subject before committing to it.

Personally, I'd take a single fast system drive complemented with RAID5 and a solid backup plan over any measure of RAID0. But that's just me.
 
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So your options are RAID0 or RAID0? Doesn't sound like much of a choice to me.

My system drive is full of non-essential data, stuff that's not even worthy of a backup, yet I'd still be sufficiently pissed to incur downtime due to failure that I'll never recommend the meager performance increase of RAID0 when the tradeoff is doubling your risk of failure. You might do some light reading on the subject before committing to it.

Personally, I'd take a single fast system drive complemented with RAID5 and a solid backup plan over any measure of RAID0. But that's just me.
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I don't want 4+ Hard drives in my system really. I have no use for so much space to get Raid5. And my data also is not really worth backing up and as I said before I do have a external 500Gb Hard drive for important files and saved music etc. I'm basically OS and games on my Hard drives. And there mostly huge bitmap files like WoW and other things. I understand that if 1 drive fails its over. Thing is I never had a drive fail on me even when owning one for years. That does not give me the right to say it wont ever but I will take the risk. Best lessons are learned on your own if worst comes to worst, I will just use non-raid.
 
Well after doing some tests I used Everest Ultimate Edition and ran some Disk benchmarks.

This photo is my old Hard drives top one is a 250Gb Western Digital 16mb cache 7200 HD and the bottom one is a Western Digital 74GB Raptor 10,000Rpm.
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This photo is the 2x500Gb Segates in regular Sata
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This photo was after I bought 2x500 Segate 7200.11 32mb Cache drivers Striped in Raid 0
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Seems ALOT faster Striped in Raid 0. Yes the factors if one fails I lose all data is always there but for me it is worth it because I mostly just game on my desktop. I also have a 500GB external HD for music and important papers.
 
real world benefits are not that much.. i would rather use the 2 hard drives and keep them separate.. put OS on one of them, and install the games on another.. 2 hard drives working at the same time on two different things.. can't do that with raid 0
 
I have the first gen 74gb Raptors and used them in RAID 0 since day 1; just these last few weeks, I built a new rig; q6600, 4gb ram, 8800gt sli and 2 raptors in non raid. I noticed it faster now out of RAID then when it was in, I can run hard drive intensive apps and still game and experience no lag because it is not trying to use the same hard drive for 2 things.
If you don't multitask then RAID 0, if you want to do heavy hard drive tasks and still game, leave RAID alone.
 
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