RAID NOOB info/help needed

Normally 32K or 64K will give good all round performance although 128K can be better if you're shifting a lot of big files. The difference between them won't be huge in real life but smaller stripes give better benchmark results.
 
thanks for the super fast reply, think i will use 64 then as it will give the best performance between bemchmark and transfering data


edit, do games use lots of small files for level loading etc? also will windows bootup be faster on 32kb stripe
 
I suppose it depends on the game but most FPS type ones tend to use large files for the levels and textures. No idea about the windows boot though, I haven't seen any direct comparisions between stripe sizes.
 
ok so ive fianlly got it running on the intel controler with my 2 80gb seagate drives connected to 2 of the yellow sata ports top right 2, now how do i connect my 3 storage drives up as everytime i connect one i get error loading OS.
 
Sounds like the storage drives are jumping the queue in the boot order, a quick trip into the BIOS and a reset of the order back to the seagates.

I had the same problem when I put in my new 7200.10s, the PC decided it wanted to boot of my external HDD a couple of times.
 
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