never done raid before looking for some advice

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cytech

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Sorry in advance if I say something stupid, raid is something ive never really thought or wanted.

My current setup:

300gb VRaptor as system drive
74Gb Raptor with most of my games on it.

I have recently aquired 2 more 74gb raptors and was thinking to put these in raid0 with the other one...

what should I then use as the sys drive? the VRaptor and games/progs on the raid or reversed? what would bring the most advantage..

also my board has two sata chips the intel ICH10 and a Jmicron, am I correct in thinking I should stick to Intel one?

Cheers in advance.
 
If it were me, I would use the 74 gigs as storage and other stuff, IE games, and raid 0 them. I would leave My system drive as the 300 gig raptor, because, (Im not 100% on this, but im sure others will clarify ) I would bet the 300 gig would still be as fast or faster than the older 74gigs in raid. Plus your not subjecting yourself to the extra chance of a system drive failing due to raid.

And I think I would stick with the Intel raid myself also.
 
yup thats what ive decided to do =) took a while to find a way to activate the ich10r in raid though without reinstalling windows but I have and its formatting the raid array as i type :)
 
I used raids several years ago, no real advantage. Too much hassle and potential disaster. I'd recommend getting the fastest single drive you can afford. You seem to already have a very fast drive in the the VRaptor.
 
Liver said:
I used raids several years ago, no real advantage. Too much hassle and potential disaster. I'd recommend getting the fastest single drive you can afford. You seem to already have a very fast drive in the the VRaptor.
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aye but i got the two extra 74gbs for a case of beer so i thought what the hell, give it a go.

the 3 raptors are fast though faster than i thought getting arround 240 read 110 write.
 
cytech said:
aye but i got the two extra 74gbs for a case of beer so i thought what the hell, give it a go.

the 3 raptors are fast though faster than i thought getting arround 240 read 110 write.
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If it's an experiment, then go for it!

If it's to be useful, I wouldn't have traded the beer.
 
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