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Hellfire Rated XXX
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Posted: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:56:04 Post Subject: |
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Well that computer is the one that only has a 40 gig 5400rpm drive in there now, and redundancy isn't a problem, as it's mainly a game rig. Don't have RAID as an option on my work machine (the 2600 Barton), at least I don't think it is, will have to verify that to be sure...
Speed is probably the biggest desire, but then again, not really sure, as all the games I play working great as it is on the 5400rpm drive The games I play are MMORPG's (ie Everquest, Asheron's Call, City of Heroes, and World of Warcraft), and occassionally Diablo 2 style games but not often. |
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Hellfire Rated XXX
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Posted: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:54:41 Post Subject: |
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Yea, that's why redundancy isn't an issue at least on this system. I back all my stuff up to DVD, my Archos player, or my web-site.
So probably go Raid 0 just for the speed
Any idea what kind of speed boost I could see? Will it be really noticable? |
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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!
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Spire Hall Pass B!tch!!!
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Posted: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:13:42 Post Subject: |
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Im still debating the entire RAID 0 is better thing...
First of all, yes benchmarks are real good, but real life doesn't seem to show the increase. I have 2 x 37 gig Raptors in a RAID 0 array and although they scream, they scream all by themselves too. I'm not sure the risk of 2 x the failure rate is worth anything.
Then I ran across this from Anandtech...
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2101&p=1
I have benches of all kinds of my array setups, 0 and 1. I can post the pics if any interest. I also compared onboard SIL controller to a PCI SATA RAID card. |
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Hellfire Rated XXX
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Posted: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:59:04 Post Subject: |
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I'm not sold on Raid 0 either, not sure if the speed increase would really give me that big of a "bonus" but might do that since I'd still have the whole 400gig's available |
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