Raid 10 or 01

moleh · 15 Jan 2010 at 14:47

Will the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58 do raid 10 or 01 and do people think it would be worth using with 4 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB ?

Price would be £160 it would be used for Os + games I have a 2TB drive for storage.

Suppose if the raid is not supported I could have raid 1 for OS raid 0 for games and then a backup of game config to the 2TB

Just wanted to see what people thought.

Thanks

Moleh

Tweaker · 15 Jan 2010 at 15:20

RAID 10 would be ok if you want absolute performace from a HDD and with lots of space, though why not just buy an SSD?

moleh · 15 Jan 2010 at 15:33

SSD's look nice but I read your looking at paying £250-£350 for a good one that will fit more than your OS on it. I mean things like wow and mmo's where you see this speed in load times are about 12-20GB in size so not going to get much on a 64GB?

Whats the cheapest SSD that people would say is a good improvement over a raid 0 T3 or a raptor ?

Thanks

moleh

moleh · 15 Jan 2010 at 19:14

Are all the intel and OCZ drives really good or just the £200 + ones ?

Tweaker · 15 Jan 2010 at 19:25

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN

This one is excellent, Intel drives are good, not as high write speeds as other drives but very good on everything else.