raid 0 and games

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ok ive got 2x 200gb 7200.10's and 1 samsung 80gb all sata II

so im planing on raid 0 on the 2 seagates, but would it be better for gaming performance if i put the games on the raided aray after i install windows or put them on the samsung?

im thinking that while windows (dual boot) is running on the 2x raid 0 drives they will be to busy to load game maps etc so it will be quicker to load them from a seperate drive

whats your opinion ?

can you suggest the best use of my drives for gaming

thanks in advance

stinka
 
raid the 7200.10's and stick your games and windows on there

use the samsung for extra storage tbh
 
Ive done something simular but with 2x 160GB Samsung drives in Raid 0 for windows/apps/games and a seperate drive for backup.

I setup this array wih a 32Kb stripe size and its really dissapointing. It feels no faster than a single drive, and it seems perhaps slower. e.g. If I leave media player running with some mp3's going and do something else moderatley intensive like extracting a large .rar archive, the music slows down and starts stuttering. Its definatley not my cpu as only roughly 30% is being used on each core.

Any ideas chaps? I use my PC for Gaming but also for media centre and recording tv etc.

Would I have been better with a larger stripe size, like 128KB?
 
celliott said:
Ive done something simular but with 2x 160GB Samsung drives in Raid 0 for windows/apps/games and a seperate drive for backup.

I setup this array wih a 32Kb stripe size and its really dissapointing. It feels no faster than a single drive, and it seems perhaps slower. e.g. If I leave media player running with some mp3's going and do something else moderatley intensive like extracting a large .rar archive, the music slows down and starts stuttering. Its definatley not my cpu as only roughly 30% is being used on each core.

Any ideas chaps? I use my PC for Gaming but also for media centre and recording tv etc.

Would I have been better with a larger stripe size, like 128KB?
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whats youre specs mate

i was gonna go 16k cluster/stripe :confused:
 
AMD Opteron 170 Dual Core 2.5GHz
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Motherboard
2GB Supertalent PC3200 DDR RAM
2x 160GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA2 8MB Cache Raid 0
ATi Radeon X1800XT 256MB GDDR3
NEC 3450 16x Dual Layer DVDRW
Sony 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
Hiper Type-R 480W PSU

:confused: :confused: :confused:

Anyone with a Raid0 setup advice appreciated! This PC should be able to run media player and open other stuff without lag :p
 
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