RAID0!!

[up2nogooduk]

Hi,

Was thinking of getting another 1 of these
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&tool=3 for RAID0 for my main drive and for games.
Is it really woth it ?
At that price i thought it be good buy? also is it easy enough to setup on my Asus rampage III.

or 2 of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-336-WD&tool=3
Thanks a lot

 

[up2nogooduk]

The F3 is about the fastest non 10k+ or SSD drive going so yeah, anothers a decent buy TBH.

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_lookup.php?cpu=WDC+WD1002FAEX

Gives a decent charting of modern drives. Your F3 is the HD502HJ. There's nowt quicker atm (this side of raptors/SSD's)

So another F3 in raido ?

 

[up2nogooduk]

I read so many different storys that it would speed loading games up, and some say not lol
I orderd another f3 now... for the price i thought it be worth it. so i wont see any speed up times in games at all then ?

 

[up2nogooduk]

Would have to disagree with some of the above, i'm using WD Blue Drives in Raid 0 configuration and my games seem to load pretty fast in comparison to having a single drive. The other thing which could help indicate raid 0 offering improvements is some of my benchmarks scores in comparison to others where I seem to be scoring higher figures yet using older technology for example ive got higher Heaven 2.5 scores then people with the same card but who are using the i7 processor.

Ive been looking upgrading my current Blue to the F3s but just waiting for a moment where I can start stripping my data from my current array.

iTek. any info on the best way to setup raido plz mate..
Cheers

 

[up2nogooduk]

What motherboard you using?

Its pretty straight forward usually, I just ran through the Raid tool which was part of the BIOS on my motherboard (ASUS P5Q Pro)

Hi,

I'm using an Asus rampage III Extreme. shall i put the sata connetions on any sata port on the motherboard ?

Cheers.