Vista Raid question

Willbo

Willbo

Willbo

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I'm just thinking about adding a RAID to my new system, using either Raptors or some other good performing HDD.

Has anyone done this with Vista and an ASUS P5B Deluxe Mobo? Do suitable Vista drivers come on the CD? If someone could help I'd very much appreciate it.

Also, do OC sell any decent headphones (for late night gaming)????
 
Please don't buy Raptors. Two identical Seagate drives with 16MB caches will be so much better for the money.

Headphones/headsets can be found in the Speakers section under Peripherals.

As for setting up your RAID, I'm not using Vista so can't help on that, sorry. :)
 
Are Seagate drives ok? As in quiet, fast and reliable....I get mixed up with Seagate and Maxtor.
 
masslac said:
Please don't buy Raptors. Two identical Seagate drives with 16MB caches will be so much better for the money.

Headphones/headsets can be found in the Speakers section under Peripherals.

As for setting up your RAID, I'm not using Vista so can't help on that, sorry. :)
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He can do what he wants. but yes. I agree with you. It's what I have.
 
Willbo said:
Are Seagate drives ok? As in quiet, fast and reliable....
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Yes, very quick. Not quite as quiet as Samsung units, but for performance they can't really be beaten for the price. Maxtors really are not what they used to be.

zen62619 said:
He can do what he wants.
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I am aware of that, thanks.
 
Raid is controlled by your BIOS and chipset, OS has little control over it. The worst scenario is that you need to install chipset drivers in Vista, which should be done anyway as standard.

You should be able to install vista without needing a driver diskette, aswell.
 
masslac said:
Please don't buy Raptors.
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Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

masslac said:
Mine's bigger than yours.
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I hope you are on about the handbag there otherwise you will cause an argument :rolleyes:

Willbo said:
I'm just thinking about adding a RAID to my new system
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Go for 2 seagates sumthing like 2x250 depends if you need storage. This gives you speed with storage especially when they are sataII.
 
OK should have asked in first place, but does RAID offer a big enough improvement on speed to justify it?

I'd be using the RAID as my boot drive.

Or would it just be worth having two Seagate drives, 250gb for boot and a 500gb backup. I currently have a Samsung 120gb SATA drive as my boot
 
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