As a gamer, a small 74GB Raptor is just crippling me - so I have decided to sell it and go with some much larger disks. I do quite a bit of gaming (Battlefield 2, CM: DiRT etc). What solution would be best?
RAID 0
2 x 250 GB Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE SATA300 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
Single Drive
500GB Western Digital WD5000KS Caviar SATA-II 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
The single drive is ?5 cheaper and also means that my disk failure rate is "half" (in theory, compared to RAID 0)
I appreciate your input.
K.
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Originally Posted by leetkyle
As a gamer, a small 74GB Raptor is just crippling me - so I have decided to sell it and go with some much larger disks. I do quite a bit of gaming (Battlefield 2, CM: DiRT etc). What solution would be best?
RAID 0
2 x 250 GB Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE SATA300 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
Single Drive
500GB Western Digital WD5000KS Caviar SATA-II 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
The single drive is ?5 cheaper and also means that my disk failure rate is "half" (in theory, compared to RAID 0)
I appreciate your input.
K.
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Yeah good idea to me, load up times will be faster, maybe 5fps of difference in gaming. Are you backing the RAID array up on the single?
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RAID is good... I used a pair of Raptors a while back and it was pretty darn fast. However, under normal circumstances, I really saw no performance increase over a good single drive. Plus you have more of a chance of failure, more power, more heat... Typically I'd stay away from RAID unless it's much cheaper or you do something like a mirrored set.
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It would be my primary drive and I'd install all my applications on it etc. 500GB is quite a lot to lose - so I am sort of leaning towards one of the single drives because it is both cheaper and less likelihood of failure.
I appreciate both your inputs
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RAID0 is not really worth it. I have 2 drives in RAID0, loading times improved a little, but that's about it. You won't get better fps; for that you would have to get a better graphics card, memory or CPU.
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maybe 5fps of difference in gaming.
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Who told you this? RAIDing your harddrives wont get you more FPS. It will help loading times a little though.
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