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Offline IronDog

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What's the best way to do this?
« on: October 19, 2009, 12:28:18 PM »
When Windows 7 becomes available,I have a free upgrade.I'm waiting until then to fire up a raid array and I can't figure out how to go about doing it.I ran the 2 raptor 75 gb hd's on xp for a long time,and they did great.I wan't to keep using the Seagate 500 gb for everyday use,and have the raptors for gaming.I think I will have to dual boot,but I was wonder how else this might be accomplished?I was hoping to run everything on windows 7,but i'm not sure how to do it.Thanks for any help in advance!
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: What's the best way to do this?
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2009, 12:41:37 PM »
What RAID level are you going for and what will your board support?
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Re: What's the best way to do this?
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2009, 03:24:42 PM »
I was running Raid 0,and will use it again.My board is a Asus i-7 board and I have the driver on the system disk.
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Re: What's the best way to do this?
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2009, 04:04:40 PM »
I have to ask...why RAID 0?

I could understand RAID 1 or higher but RAID 0 has little to no benefit other than some improved performance (which your Raptor drives are seriously fast) and higher capacity. I'm assuming you're using the Windows RAID system.

From what I can tell, you should be able to pair the 2 75GB drives in a RAID pair running your operating system and programs, then have the 500 sit alone for data storage. Dual booting will only increase the possibility of data corruption.

I've never tried it and though Windows 7 architecture supposedly handles it better...I haven't seen any reports good or bad on it.
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Re: What's the best way to do this?
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2009, 04:16:42 PM »
There is no benefit to be had for using RAID 0 with Aces High because the file sizes are just not big enough to see any benefit. Only games that frequently load photorealistic textures or applications that access huge files will see any benefit as far as I have seen. I dont think that motherboard RAID controllers are the way to go though. I would use the raptors as stand alone drives which would probably run at reduced latency over a motherboard controlled RAID of any kind when used for gaming.
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Re: What's the best way to do this?
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2009, 04:36:24 PM »
RAID array really do offer anything to gaming.  They may help with large load times in games, but unless you're working with large video/photo/3d stuff, I wouldn't bother too much with RAID.

My current setup I use RAID 0 because of the above.  I benched with 1 drive and later on with 2 drives in RAID and the numbers and performance were a good improvement.  At the time, for price/gb size, it made sense for me.  When those drive(s) fail, with current pricing on new HDs and performance gains, I'd stick with one drive.  Or go to RAID 1.
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Re: What's the best way to do this?
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2009, 05:25:20 PM »
O.K. I guess the raid idea wasn't so good.So I guess I will just connect the 2 Raptor's in as I already have them in the puter.The only thing I noticed when I used them in a raid array was faster loading times.If anyone has a better idea how to use my 3 hd's,I'm open for suggestion.Thanks.
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