Two Velociraptors

[Ravynmagi]

Best Buy has the dang Velociraptors on sale for $199 and I don't think I can resist that price anymore. I'm probably going to pick up a couple of these during lunch.

Right now I have a 74GB Raptor as my OS drive and I have four 640GB WD AAKS drives in RAID 0 for my games and storage needs (games have a 200GB partition at the beginning).

I'm thinking of moving my OS and games two the Velociraptor drives. Should I put the drives together in a RAID-0 and install the games and OS together or would it be better to keep the drives separate and install the games and OS on separate drives?

 

[-=Antimatter=-]

RAID 0 for storage isn't the best idea in the world.

I'd RAID 0 the raptors for games and OS as you said, and then reconfigure the 640GB drives so at the very least they aren't RAID 0.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Yeah RAID-0 wouldn't be good for the storage drives by itself. But I also back up those drives nightly to external drives.

And I'll also be backing up the two Velociraptor drives to an external drive as well (just bought a WD 640GB for this purpose).

 

[saedrin]

I'm getting around 135mb/s on average read on the older raptorX's, and game performance is excellent. I'd suggest RAID O with the raptors for the OS and games and then do a RAID 5 on the 640's for storage.