Anyone here use RAID with games?

[Axloz]

How does it go? Does it make much of a difference?
Would I be better off to get a KT133A with RAID support or a KT266 DDR without RAID?
This is primarily for gaming.

What do you guys think?

 

[Mikendi]

I thik you need to take into account what it is you're going to do with the system. DDR give (generously) a 10-15% increase in performance over SDRAM. If you look at Sandra drive index you'll see that the standard ATA/66 gives an index of I think 1300, the ATA/66 in RAID 0 gave 2400, and in ATA/100 gave 3840 - something like that. HDTach gives a better performance profile, but it's really the big numbers that turn us on admit it . . . OK back to reality - RAID 0 is fast - I ran a Tbird 1gig @ 1150 in a RAID 0 setup on a KT7-R board and it rocked. Very stabile too was my Iwill side RAID 66 & 100 cards and for the price you can't beat it.

For real performance go 10k U2W SCSI. Drives are inexpensive, and controllers are coming down in price every month. Axxess ties are half what the best IDE can offer + Plus with SCSI your CPU is free to do what you paid for it to do. Something to think about -

 

[zzzz]

DDR without raid.

 

[danii8]

I am not much of game player, but I don't think raid give much of a difference.

 

[MadAd]

most of the time when your playing the game you shouldnt have much disk acess going on, if at all .. if your talking about loading it in the first place, well maybe a bit, depends on the game really, and what sort of files it has to load ... at level change it might be a bit snappier with bringing up the next gfxs tho

 

[Bingo13]

DDR without Raid and buy a very fast IDE drive, (IBM 60GXP, Maxtor Diamond MaxPlus 60).