Raid 0 for gaming drive

Boscher · 9 Jan 2009 at 17:20

Hi guys

I'm putting together a Raid 0 for gaming.

I was either going to go with

3x Samsung 320GB F1

or

5X 80GB Seagates

Also I just want the absolute fastest available. I already have the above drive just sitting in a draw from previous builds so I was not looking at buying SSDs or Raptors.

Would creating a smaller partition make it any faster? As I only need about 100GB usable for my games.

Then I have some individual 1TB drives for my data.

My motherboard is an Abit IP35 Pro

Thanks.

MooMoo444 · 9 Jan 2009 at 17:22

Boscher said:
Also I just want the absolute fastest available.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2SH032G1)

Know you said not looking for SSD but raid 0 5000 drives isnt worth it for gaming.. :s

Boscher · 9 Jan 2009 at 17:26

Hey mate,

Well I would rather not dish out £500 when I might be able to use up these harddrives.

I think a good Raid 0 Array could match those figures of ?

Read: Up to 250MB/sec
Write: Up to 170MB/sec

Wiggins · 9 Jan 2009 at 18:19

If its any help, I use 2 Sammy 500GB F1's on Raid0 and get blistering performance on gaming with 128kb stripe.

Fallout 3 from clicking the icon to playing the game takes 15 seconds. You may get some decent performance with your 320GB ones.

netdps · 9 Jan 2009 at 22:12

In general if you have a decent Raid Controller that can handle the bandwidth the more drives the greater the speed. this is due to it having to physically write/read less to/from each drive if you have 3 drives it will write/read 1/3 of the info to each disk you have 5 its gonna be 1/5 of the data, seek spin timings etc ofc also go into the equation but if the drives are the same speed 5 disks will be faster then 3.

netdps · 9 Jan 2009 at 22:21

MooMoo444 said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2SH032G1)

Know you said not looking for SSD but raid 0 5000 drives isnt worth it for gaming.. :s

those intel drives are stupidly overpriced for performance for the price of that one drive you can get 4 OCZ vertex's put them in a Raid 0 config and and you'll be look at figures like 2 -3x faster then those intel drives especially on read. oh and on top of that get 4x the storage aswell.

I know how i'd spend my money....