2 Velociraptors - What to do? hmmmm

[wrangler]

So I find my self with an extra Velociraptor. I was thinking I would go for Raid 0. So I start to do a little research and come across the sticky here on AT and it recommends just using them non-raid with OS on one and games on the other and says that benchmarks show that this is faster. Is this a product of the machine having access to the OS and page/swap file on one disk while the game data is on another?

This is for my gaming computer. I have my little laptop here for schoolwork, web surfing, family photo's etc. etc. so gaming performance is the objective.

In my mind, I am imagining that raid 0 would be better for shortening the time it takes loading a save game for example while the non-raid config would be better in game i.e. less stutter when it has to access one or the other disk.

Am I on the right track? What would you do?

 

[Fallengod]

I personally never run raid. I dont see the point. I always run 1 raptor and its plenty fast. Currently I run a 74gb raptor as main and WD 640gb black as slave.... works great for me.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Fallengod
I personally never run raid. I dont see the point. I always run 1 raptor and its plenty fast. Currently I run a 74gb raptor as main and WD 640gb black as slave.... works great for me.

:thumbsup:

I do the same thing with a 150 GB raptor. 30 GB for OS/Applications and 100 GB for games. Plenty. Then a ide hard drive drive as secondary.

 

[DSF]

Anandtech has done more than one review of RAID 0, and the performance increase just isn't there. I've heard it gets better with multiple drives on a dedicated controller, but that isn't the setup most people have.

 

[wrangler]

OK non-raid then.

Thanks guys.

 

[Emulex]

i'd setup a partition as raid-1 and the rest as raid-0 using intel matrix raid.

that way you can store critical data on the raid-1 portion of the two drives with raid-0 doubling the output for o/s.

its very common. on my 1TB drives i run raid-10 on the first 100GB and the rest raid-5 (nas server). windows 2008 seems to eat up the mad speed from raid-10 and nas with 4 1TB drives fast enough