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April 3, 2013 9:27:29 AM

Alright so i havent worked out all the kinks in my plan yet.
in about a week im going to wipe my computer and start from scratch.
Its a pure gaming setup.
Im going to be installing win8 with some mods that will bring back the good ol days.
and im wanting to know which i should do with my hardrive setup.
a couple of my options are.
os completely on a 120 GB Kingston 3K SSD & and a Raid setup of 4 WD hardrives for gaming and download storage.

OR

os completely on a 120 GB Kingston 3K SSD & and a Raid setup of 4 WD hardrives for gaming and download storage AND a small ssd using intel smart rresponse.

Or

Something else.
Like OS on raided drives with small ssd used for intel smart response and a ssd gaming drive.


Throw out some options and tell me what you think and whats a good idea and whats not.

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April 3, 2013 9:33:22 AM

What raid level do you have planned? If you're raiding 4 drives I would hope it to be raid 5.

My personal setup has an SSD for OS and main office programs, a pair of 1TB drives in RAID 0 and the other two drives for storage/downloads, backups and everything else.
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April 3, 2013 9:45:52 AM

pauls3743 said:
What raid level do you have planned? If you're raiding 4 drives I would hope it to be raid 5.

My personal setup has an SSD for OS and main office programs, a pair of 1TB drives in RAID 0 and the other two drives for storage/downloads, backups and everything else.




I am currently caught between raid 0 or 5.
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April 3, 2013 10:05:15 AM

Hey,

I would put the OS on the SSD, and then put the 4 drives in RAID 1 or preferably RAID 5. Do NOT put your 4 drives in RAID 0, it will increase performance (unnecessary as you have an ssd), but it increases the risk of losing all of your data if one drive fails. If one of your drives fails in an RAID 0 array all of your data is lost, with RAID 5 or RAID 1 you have redundancy.


Hope this helps!
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April 3, 2013 10:18:57 AM

Steer clear of RAID 0 for a 4 drive setup. The data is spread across all the hard drives, if you lose one drive you lose everything across the array.

RAID 1 (mirroring) doesn't actually support 4 drives, it's exclusive to 2 drives. Another possibily to consider is RAID 10 (read as 1 + 0, it mirrors a pair of drives and then stripes them with another mirrored pair). This gives better performance and data security than RAID 5 but at the cost of losing as extra drive.
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April 3, 2013 2:08:48 PM

pauls3743 said:
Steer clear of RAID 0 for a 4 drive setup. The data is spread across all the hard drives, if you lose one drive you lose everything across the array.

RAID 1 (mirroring) doesn't actually support 4 drives, it's exclusive to 2 drives. Another possibily to consider is RAID 10 (read as 1 + 0, it mirrors a pair of drives and then stripes them with another mirrored pair). This gives better performance and data security than RAID 5 but at the cost of losing as extra drive.


Thanks for the input, now i need some input on the second half of my question.
Should i go with:
OS completely on a 120 GB Kingston 3K SSD & and a Raid setup of 4 WD hardrives for gaming and download storage.

OR

os completely on a 120 GB Kingston 3K SSD & and a Raid setup of 4 WD hardrives for gaming and download storage AND a small ssd using intel smart rresponse.

Or

Something else.
Like OS on raided drives with small ssd used for intel smart response and an ssd gaming drive.

Should i even be messing with intel rapid storage? is it worth it?
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April 3, 2013 5:20:40 PM

I would put the OS on the SSD, and keep the files and rest of the programs on the hard drive RAID array. With the SSD as a boot drive the computer will be pretty snappy already, you don't necessarily need the smart response drive.

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