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spathotan   06-20-2008 at 08:40:48 PM

Ive browsed over the "RAID FAQ" sticky up here, but it was posted like 5 years ago and im not sure if it still holds up or not. But anyways...

I have two harddrives, my PC is used purely for gaming, Vista 64bit, 4GB of RAM. Im going to reformat here soon and im pondering setting them up in a RAID for faster loading times, but im unsure as to which RAID to use. I am totally clueless when it comes to drives. Thanks for any help.

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pinaplex   06-20-2008 at 08:47:58 PM
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raid won't help loading times, it is meant for sustained transfer rates. if you want to improve your loading times, buy a raptor.

i would just recommend running your drives as 2 separate drives.

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spathotan   06-20-2008 at 11:26:15 PM
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Ok, thanks for the help.

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Steven Bancroft   06-21-2008 at 12:11:39 AM
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While what pinaplex is true (mostly), it did not answer your question. RAID 0 is used to make 1 drive out of 2. Data is stripped across the 2 drives to increase transfer speeds, but there is no redundancy. Disk failure on 1 drive will leave the data on the other usable.

RAID1 offers redundancy, but offers no benefit in speed.

Pinaplex is correct in saying if you want better load times buy a Raptor (probably the Velociraptor now), but those can be RAIDed too.

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KawiNinjaZX   06-21-2008 at 01:23:40 AM
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If you are going to run RAID, run RAID 5 it has great redundancy and faster read speeds. RAID 1 sucks because if you get corruption in your OS sometimes it takes out all the files on both drives and striping is just dumb. If you cant afford 3-4 Hard Drives for RAID 5 then just run separate drives.

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