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How do I set up RAID 0?

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toxikneedle

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Hey guys, I'm new to RAID.... I know how it works and everything but I have absolutely no clue on how to set it up/install it. I have a Seagate 80gb 7200rpm and I'll be getting a WD Raptor 74gb drive. I'll want to set up RAID 0 so I can improve game loading times. Can someone point me in the right direction where I can get help.
 
Well alright, I'll probably get 2 74gb raptors in RAID 0. But, no one still answered my topic.... I need to find out exactly how to set it up.
 
Always and forever will there be a bias against setting up RAID0...especially when the main use for it happens to be for the 5% ratio people actually spend of their total gaming time waiting for a level (area, whatever) to load.

You have to have an SATA RAID controller with a BIOS that supports RAID.

If you have such a thing, then you will need to RTFM that came with motherboard. If not, then you'll need to obtain a PCI SATA RAID controller card and set things up that way. With either of these choices, a reinstall is probably necessary unless your RAID 0 array would be secondary to your 80GB, where everything loads from that logical disk. That's totally your decision.

Honestly though, post the rest of your system specs, I'm sure more can be done for the usability of your system in general than upgrading your disk I/O setup.
 
feigned said:
Always and forever will there be a bias against setting up RAID0...especially when the main use for it happens to be for the 5% ratio people actually spend of their total gaming time waiting for a level (area, whatever) to load.

You have to have an SATA RAID controller with a BIOS that supports RAID.

If you have such a thing, then you will need to RTFM that came with motherboard. If not, then you'll need to obtain a PCI SATA RAID controller card and set things up that way. With either of these choices, a reinstall is probably necessary unless your RAID 0 array would be secondary to your 80GB, where everything loads from that logical disk. That's totally your decision.

Honestly though, post the rest of your system specs, I'm sure more can be done for the usability of your system in general than upgrading your disk I/O setup.
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Seriously just read the manual,... its all in there. Search the forum and read up on Raid 0.
 
morpheus6d9 said:
you could use the the 70 and 30 but the raid will only be 30 gb's
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No, in a striped RAID I believe the result of a 70 and a 30 would be ~60gb.
In a mirror you would get 30gb.

you can use mismatched drives, but doing it is kinda silly, you get a final drive size = 2x the smaller drive and the speed is limitted by the slower of the two(which would totally negate the benefits of having a Raptor in this case).
 
feigned said:
Always and forever will there be a bias against setting up RAID0...especially when the main use for it happens to be for the 5% ratio people actually spend of their total gaming time waiting for a level (area, whatever) to load.

You have to have an SATA RAID controller with a BIOS that supports RAID.

If you have such a thing, then you will need to RTFM that came with motherboard. If not, then you'll need to obtain a PCI SATA RAID controller card and set things up that way. With either of these choices, a reinstall is probably necessary unless your RAID 0 array would be secondary to your 80GB, where everything loads from that logical disk. That's totally your decision.

Honestly though, post the rest of your system specs, I'm sure more can be done for the usability of your system in general than upgrading your disk I/O setup.
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I'm gonna be building a new system in the fall. I have a Seagate 80gb 7200rpm HD in my current rig and I was thinking of using it... But I wanna set up raid now so I'll just get 2 raptor drives for that.

The mobos I'm looking at support RAID 0/1/0+1.... I just have a question which is better for gaming and would RAID 0 be fine for me.... since games are my only real concern with RAID.
 
Read me.
RAID-0 isn't all that it's cracked up to be, make sure it'll actually benefit you before you cut your MTBF in 1/2.
 
toxikneedle said:
I just have a question which is better for gaming and would RAID 0 be fine for me.... since games are my only real concern with RAID.
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One fast system disk, one large storage disk.

Raptor 74GB
Maxtor 300GB w/16MB cache

You don't need RAID0 for games.
 
feigned said:
One fast system disk, one large storage disk.

Raptor 74GB
Maxtor 300GB w/16MB cache

You don't need RAID0 for games.
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The man speaks the truth. Raid 0 can actually increase load times.
 
Well, that's what my original plan was to get a maxtor 16mb cache and a raptor.... Then I thought about if I actually put all my games and windows on the raptor drive and the rest on the maxtor, my maxtor is only gonna be like 10-20GBs. So I started looking at the RAID possibility for faster load times and such. At this point I'm thinking of just getting 1 74gb Raptor drive.
 
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