Need help choosing my RAID0 configurations

dr4g0nf1y

dr4g0nf1y

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This is going to be a little complicated...

I'm currently using 3x f3's in raid0 on one machine and I'm happy with the speed but I have more sataII ports.

On another pc I have 6 sataII ports but I'm running those in parallel but they're unusable to raid so I'd have to get more drives. The thing is if I wanted to Raid 6 drives it'll cost me £200 and I'll possibly get a maximum read speed of 300mb/s but for the same price I could get 3 patriot 32gb ssd's.

Both computers are already linked to my steam account that has 130 games on, but I'm happy with having them all backed up on another drive and only the ones I'd be currently playing to be installed.

The computer that currently isn't raided is an e8500 @ 4.4GHz on an asus rampage formula which I think will become my main gaming pc or the current one thats a phenom 955 @ 3.8GHz on an asus crosshair formula.

What are peoples opinions on the configurations I can have?

I don't mind moving the drives I have into the other machine and so forth as I'll probably reinstall both at the same time.

What I'm after is a better load time for both machines.

I welcome any input :)

p.s If I partition raided drives would I lose performance? (just so I can have designated drives for back ups/music/movies etc)
 
You keep backups which aren't on the raid 0, right?

Go for an ssd or two. The days of strapping raptors together for better performance are behind us.
 
thinking about getting 2 more f3's and 2 of those patriots 32gb and raiding them.

the 2 drives I have now I might stick with the 2 ssd's as a back up. I've currently got all my games bar a few I didn't get round to downloading on a usb drive.

I still like raiding spindles but once the cost eqauls that of 2 ssd's performance is squandered.
 
Partitioning raided drives shouldn't make a difference, just remember as with any mechanical drive that the first part of the drive is the fastest, (normally first 20% or so), so if you have multiple partitions, put things that aren't used much (or don't require a performance to run well), on a partition at the end of the drive.

i.e. on a 500GB drive, put the OS on the first 100GB partition (or whatever you size it to) as that will give the best performance.
 
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