two RAID arrays

[breadturbo]

would having two arrays on the same controller hurt/bottleneck anything?

I was thinking of grabbing a pair of 32gb corsair x32's and raiding them for win7 and having my games etc installed on my velociraptors, setup would be....

2x X32 SSD RAID0 for win7
4x 300gb velociraptors RAID0 for games

or i was considering using 3 raptors for games in RAID1, and using the 4th for pagefile (if its ever used with 8gb ram)

my southbridge is watercooled

 

[rpstewart]

would having two arrays on the same controller hurt/bottleneck anything?

If you use the southbridge controller then no, if you use a discreet controller on a plugin card or a secondary mobo controller then it may have a limited connection to the southbridge (PCIe 1x is 250MB/s for example)

or i was considering using 3 raptors for games in RAID1, and using the 4th for pagefile (if its ever used with 8gb ram)

You can't run 3 drives in RAID1, it's 2 disks only.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Why would you buy two expensive 32gb drives, when the Crucial is basically the same drive, yet cheaper for a version twice the size? get 2x64gb, which will be faster as they have a higher write speed due to size, they are cheaper, and you have enough room for 64gb worth of extra games.

Why you'd buy 4 raptors for games, with 1.2tb I don't know.

Frankly they won't be any faster in games than 2x 7200rpm cheapo drives in raid 0.

So get two crucials, or a single 128gb, whatever you prefer, and if you really need more space for games, stick less performance dependant games on a cheap raid 0 array.

Keep in mind raid 0 arrays won't power down at idle like single drives so you get a constant never ending whine, which with big raptors will be significantly louder than a couple 7200rpm drives in raid.


Get the crucial drives, install games you play every single day, if you really run out of space, try a single 7200rpm drive, hell install the same game once on the ssd and once on the single drive and see if its really that much slower to load.

 

[ChileanLlama]

+1

Keep your pagefile on the SSD as well.