Raid question

oxygene · 28 May 2010 at 20:20

Age old question. I have a boot disk (500gb) and a spare 500gb I have no use for. But now I'm thinking of RAIDing the 2 together and installing my games there. Which RAID setup would give the best performance boost? I dont expect much more from saving stuff, But loading is a real bottleneck in a lot of my games. Just getting a new cpu tomorrow so hoping to improve both load times and processing times at the same... ummm... time.

oxygene · 28 May 2010 at 20:36

It does indeed. I've had a glance but both 0 and 1 seamed to offer speed increases. Its good to know what works in the real world. As for losing the data, it will only be game installs and the OS, so no worries

oxygene · 28 May 2010 at 21:09

Sweet. I guess the next step is to figure out how to onboard raid works on this motherboard. Prolly a bios switch. On reflection, would I need to reinstall windows on the raid once its set up, or could I set it up to spread the curretn system over a new array?

oxygene · 29 May 2010 at 06:51

My board is a MSI K9A2 Neo2. Not the greatest but not the worst! Just now clearing off the important stuff from C in prep

oxygene · 29 May 2010 at 13:34

Well with my new cpu in today I'm seeing a nice boost to gaming. Now to RAID I guess. Load times are the issue, stuff like Anno 1404 takes ages to load. Using a 1tb sata2 to run games atm.