I am putting together a home desktop, its main function will likely be gaming, though it will do other tasks besides this.
I had considered buying a SCSI RAID card, then hooking it up to two SCSI hard drives (along with a DVD drive) and using RAID 0. However, this is costly, and I wonder if it is really worth it.
1. What kind of performance difference is there, on a desktop, between SCSI and IDE? For I/O heavy machines I hear SCSI should make a big difference, but what with the advances in IDE and IDE drives, is there much difference for a desktop?
2. Since IDE will only give me two channels, will having the DVD and one HD on one cable have a noticable performance impact?
3. Would a seperate RAID card be worth the cost (assuming IDE here), as opposed to using integrated RAID on a motherboard? Assuming a HyperThread processor, will the RAID chip on the board chew up additional cycles, thus making it worth having a seperate card? I am confused as to the performance impact of using integrated RAID for RAID 0.
I would be looking to buy a board using the Intel 875P chipset.
Thanks for your help.
I had considered buying a SCSI RAID card, then hooking it up to two SCSI hard drives (along with a DVD drive) and using RAID 0. However, this is costly, and I wonder if it is really worth it.
1. What kind of performance difference is there, on a desktop, between SCSI and IDE? For I/O heavy machines I hear SCSI should make a big difference, but what with the advances in IDE and IDE drives, is there much difference for a desktop?
2. Since IDE will only give me two channels, will having the DVD and one HD on one cable have a noticable performance impact?
3. Would a seperate RAID card be worth the cost (assuming IDE here), as opposed to using integrated RAID on a motherboard? Assuming a HyperThread processor, will the RAID chip on the board chew up additional cycles, thus making it worth having a seperate card? I am confused as to the performance impact of using integrated RAID for RAID 0.
I would be looking to buy a board using the Intel 875P chipset.
Thanks for your help.