new hd gaming setup

SameSuspect · 28 Jul 2006 at 14:59

im looking into buying another wd 80gb sata ii drive to put in raid 0, i also wanna get a 74gb raptor to impove game/loading performance.

should i

1. put xp/music on the raid, games on the raptor
2. put both xp and games on the raptor and use the raid for music and movies

Priapus · 28 Jul 2006 at 17:38

SameSuspect said:
im looking into buying another wd 80gb sata ii drive to put in raid 0, i also wanna get a 74gb raptor to impove game/loading performance.

should i

1. put xp/music on the raid, games on the raptor
2. put both xp and games on the raptor and use the raid for music and movies

Using the Raptor for music and videos would be a waste of a good drive. I'd say put Windows XP and Music on the raid and games on the Raptor.

SameSuspect · 28 Jul 2006 at 18:32

its just i have a lot of music on here i dont want to lose. and i heard raid0 gets messed up a lot

Priapus · 28 Jul 2006 at 18:44

Bigger hard drive then?

And ya, it can do.

SameSuspect · 29 Jul 2006 at 01:13

yeah

im going to put the os on the raid, games on the raptor and music on a seperate hdd. iv never had a hdd fail on me before. hope it stays that way.

Psycho Sonny · 29 Jul 2006 at 01:39

if you put the OS on the raptor i gaurantee you it will load so fast you will be amazed, i boot into windows maybe twice as fast as my other comps and i have 4 hard disks in this comp 2 raptors and 2 samsungs, i suggest you forget RAID because it is useless, think about it 1 hard drive goes and your buggered on the other, use the raptor for OS, if you can get another raptor for games and use normal hard drives setup in a normal fashion for games, why do you need RAID for reading and writing movies and music, unless of course you are encoding but then again you would be cpu limited