Raid or not raid for gaming

Voltage · 18 Mar 2009 at 19:37

I currently have one Samsung F1 1TB drive and im considering getting a second and putting it into RAID.

Would i get a noticeable increase in gaming or general windows performance by doing this?

Nick1881 · 18 Mar 2009 at 19:54

I wouldn't run 2 x 1TB drives in Raid0 as if anything went wrong thats a lot of data to lose.

Getting 2 smaller drives 250Gb or 320Gb would improve load times and have less data loss risk, getting 2 x SSD's would be better still.

Voltage · 18 Mar 2009 at 20:16

there is hardly any data on them, they have the OS and a few games

setter · 18 Mar 2009 at 20:28

I had a raid0 config running with 2 74gb raptors a while ago, and load times in games were pretty nippy, although as mr x plosion has mentioned data loss can be an issue, as happened with mine when the array failed. Thankfully everything was backed up to a third 250gb storage drive.

Paul11 · 18 Mar 2009 at 21:14

2 x SSD in raid0 for OS and keep your 1T for storage..

Voltage · 18 Mar 2009 at 23:53

hmm, cant afford that.

so the census is then that the performance gain for me to use raid on my 1tb Samsung F1 is not worth the expense of getting another drive?

JonJ678 · 19 Mar 2009 at 00:14

The performance gain is probably worth it but that is heavily dependent on the rest of your hardware.

The risk of the array going down seems too great for 2tb of data, thats all the objections are over

dbmzk1 · 19 Mar 2009 at 01:50

Voltage said:
I currently have one Samsung F1 1TB drive and im considering getting a second and putting it into RAID.

Would i get a noticeable increase in gaming or general windows performance by doing this?

Yes, but not much. Not enough to warrant the cost, effort and potential of data loss in my opinion.

Eye seven · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:13

For just over the price of a new Samsung you could get 2 x WD RE3 drives of 250GB and raid them leaving your other drive purely for data.