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| 589537 | 2007-09-09 10:09:00 | I'm a total novice and am just starting to learn about RAID. Am thinking of buying 2X SATA-II 200GB HDDs and set them to RAID0 configuration. I know the advantage of RAID0 is up to twice the write speeds, but does read speeds also increase? Will this mean faster loading times in OS and games? And secondly, the drivers - once I've set up the HDDs in RAID, do I install the drivers before installing the OS, or after installing the OS? Thirdly, can I still partition the RAID0'd HDDs? Thanks in advance. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 589538 | 2007-09-09 19:55:00 | Read speeds also increase - you should get the same sort of increase for both read & write performance - basically you're only reading & writing half the data per drive. You have to install drivers before installing the OS - it needs to see the RAID0 array as a single logical drive before installing. The RAID driver (motherboard/RAID card) needs to be installed when the "press F6 to install 3rd party drivers" prompt comes up at the beginning of Windows setup (I'm assuming Windows 'coz you mentioned games). |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 589539 | 2007-09-09 20:34:00 | Read this: www.overclockercafe.com And be aware there are disadvantages as well, depending on which RAID you use. Disadvantages to RAID 0 Compared to a single disk drive, RAID 0 has the following disadvantage: Every drive in a RAID 0 array must be operative in order for the array to be available. So wheres your data if something happens to one of the drives? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 589540 | 2007-09-10 04:07:00 | Yeah, I've been forced to be aware of RAID0's massive disadvantage. I've never had an HDD fail on me, though, and I'll be buying new HDDs, not secondhand. I think they should do OK. I will also backup important data regularly. Thanks Mushy and Pctek. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 589541 | 2007-09-10 08:28:00 | Yeah, I've been forced to be aware of RAID0's massive disadvantage. I've never had an HDD fail on me, though, and I'll be buying new HDDs, not secondhand. I think they should do OK. I will also backup important data regularly. Thanks Mushy and Pctek. New or not. Buy RELIABLE. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 589542 | 2007-09-10 09:40:00 | Yeah, of course. Buying 2 Western Digital Caviars, they're OK right? | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 589543 | 2007-09-10 09:54:00 | Seagate IMO | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 589544 | 2007-09-10 12:42:00 | Yep - Seagate. If you double the drives then you will halve the mean time between failure - which means that on any given day you have twice the chance of one drive failing. I looked into this and for gaming, apart from quicker load times between levels, there is little point in a striped array. I have a very similar system to yours (just built it in the weekend.) Gigabyte P35 DS3R Core 2 Duo E6750 2 x Corsair DDR2 800 But I have an 8800GTX. 3DMark06 Score: 10721 3DMark points Spend your cash on a 8800GTX. Not on another hard drive. |
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