Noob RAID question

[Liampope]

Doh - 15 years playing with PCs and at least the last 3-4 with two identical hard drives and I've only just read about the particular characteristics of RAID 0! Had previously always thought RAID was only to do with sacrificing capacity for failure tolerance and never looked into it.

Sooo - for games and general use is having a RAID 0 setup over my usual C: and D: drive a total no-brainer? Is the performance boost significant? Any drawbacks apart from 1 drive failure nuking all your data?

And if it's worth the switch is there a way so set it up and somehow spread the existing windows install and data onto the second drive, or is it fresh windows install time?

Many thanks,

Liam

 

[jbloggs]

RAID

You will really only see a (decent) performance gain in using RAID0 over a single HDD, if you are working with large files (i.e., copying/moving video files) or regularly unzipping large archives, if you do neither of these two things I would just stick with a single HDD for your os...

 

[Liampope]

OK cheers. What about in, say, big game level loads? Any significant gain to be had there? If not I'll probably stick to the two individual drives. Ta

 

[pat_c]

As above + it's a fresh install time.

If you like tinkering, try it out, just to learn what RAID is all about.
otoh, if you had 2x SSD drives = do it!