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[El Papa]

I'm putting together components for my next PC I plan to build. I origianlly was going to put a RAID array with 2 seagate 80 gig serial HDs. Is there really a big advantage to this though? I like having 2 physical drives, drive 1 with two partitions for OS, Programs and drive 2 for my documents media (music & movies), and scratch disk. I do a lot of Potoshop and other graphics stuff, so I like to have a big scratch disk. Would I get that much of a performance increase with a raid setup as opposed to the one I just described with serial drives? I going to use this PC for gaming too, lots or great PC games I've missed out on because of my weak PC

Maybe I should go crazy and get 3 drives, 1 soley dedicated to scratchdisk and pagefile

 

[El Papa]

38 views? Come on PC geeks, show me some love

 

[golem]

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2101
http://faq.storagereview.com/SingleDriveVsRaid0

raid doesnt really offer a huge performance benefit for normal desktop use... dont worry about it

 

[teh_pwn]

golem beat me to it. I was going to quote the same anandtech review.

You're better off seperate. Less drive crashes.

And you can download on one drive while playing a game on another. Much faster than a whooping 2% increase RAID offers in performance.

 

[Pellham]

I dunno, a raid 0 sata array is pretty damn faster, much faster than non-raid sata. it's especially awesome for gaming.

 

[teh_pwn]

"If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer. The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop."


OH, I WISH I BLEW THAT EXTRA $300 FOR RAID 0 WD RAPTORS. THEN FAR CRY COULD LOAD 3 SECOND FASTER. OH TEH FUCK, IT LOADS FASTER WITH NO RAID...

 

[Neo_ZX]

The question is, is this review for software or hardware RAID?

 

[fart]

the raid is going to lower your data integrity. unless you need 300gb of swap space i would avoid non-redundant striping and spanning like the plague.

 

[El Papa]

Thanks guys for the input.

I dunno, a raid 0 sata array is pretty damn faster, much faster than non-raid sata. it's especially awesome for gaming.

Pellham, how do you know this?

Right now I'm leaning toward non-RAID and possibly a smaller 3rd serial drive for scratchdisk.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

I was running raid 0 before I did a fresh install a month or so ago. Got lazy and didn't want to take the few seconds it takes to set it up again. I can't tell a difference in speed without it.