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Raptor coupled with bigger drive

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I have read many different threads on different forums that had people putting one WD Raptor drive along with a bigger but slower drive. How does that work? Does it make the accessing speed of things such as game loading times or other things faster? Does it help in any way?

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Well, for the majority of people, a single 74GB raptor is enough space to install your OS, programs, games. When it comes to pictures, videos, documents, and just general data that isn't used often or you don't need to load blazingly fast, a larger slower drive is useful. You keep all your data on the bigger drive, and your programs on the smaller, faster one. That way your map loadings on games and stuff like that gets a boost. If you don't have enough stuff to fill a raptor, then there's no reason for a bigger drive, obviously.

Anyway, I there's plenty of benchmarks around that include map loading times on different drives and stuff. You should look some up if you're considering this.
 
I'm actually using that setup, a 74 gig Raptor along with a normal SATA WD 160 gig. It really does make a nice difference, particularly in booting the O/S and large applications. I've really liked my Raptor, even just one without RAID, and am fairly confident most would feel the same. I wouldn't say its an earth shattering performance difference, but its enough to notice for sure.
 
I'm pretty sure you have to have two identical drives to use RAID. Now, you do obviously need to install your raid drivers before you can install windows to the drive, but these act as drivers for the SATA ports in this case, as Widows naturally does not support them. The drives won't be connected though, it'll just be like having two PATA drives plugged in. Windows will simply show two different drives. Works like a charm. Hope that helps.
 
Depending on your raid controller(s) and OS, and the type of config you want, you can raid pata disks with sata disks, of differing sizes, from differing manufacturers if you want.. You can even softraid in xp if you were so inclined..
 
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