RAID 0 vs Raptor

[jerel]

can anyone recommend one over the other:

RAID 0 configuration with 2 80GB 7200 rpm SATA Deskstars

or

1 10000 rpm 72GB WD Raptor

i'm building a gaming machine and am looking for performance rather
than saving data. thanks for looking.

jrock

 

[Arno Wagner]

can anyone recommend one over the other:

RAID 0 configuration with 2 80GB 7200 rpm SATA Deskstars

1 10000 rpm 72GB WD Raptor

i'm building a gaming machine and am looking for performance rather
than saving data. thanks for looking.

I would go for 2 x 80GB in RAID1 but stay away from the "death"stars!
In gaming HDD speed is not your bottleneck.


Arno

 

[Colonel Blip]

Hello, (e-mail address removed)!
You wrote on 11 Feb 2005 09:50:49 -0800:

j> can anyone recommend one over the other:

j> RAID 0 configuration with 2 80GB 7200 rpm SATA Deskstars

j> or

j> 1 10000 rpm 72GB WD Raptor

j> i'm building a gaming machine and am looking for performance rather
j> than saving data. thanks for looking.

j> jrock

I have a similar question. Differences:

My drives are 80gb 7200 Maxtor IDE's for the RAID0 and I am not a gaming
enthusiast but do like a VERY responsive PC when I open large programs or
files.

Thanks.

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Chris Klink]

I would go for 2 x 80GB in RAID1 but stay away from the "death"stars!
In gaming HDD speed is not your bottleneck.


Arno

I wouldn't even bother with RAID. Just buy the biggest whopping
7200rpm HDD you can afford. Games are huge these days. Tests have
shown that RAID performance in gaming is negligible.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I wouldn't even bother with RAID. Just buy the biggest whopping
7200rpm HDD you can afford. Games are huge these days. Tests have
shown that RAID performance in gaming is negligible.

That was RAID1 not for speed but for reliability ;-)

Arno

 

[Chris Klink]

That was RAID1 not for speed but for reliability ;-)

Arno

Gamers don't care about that. Heheh.

 

[J. Clarke]

Gamers don't care about that. Heheh.

Well, except that reinstalling everything after a crash interrupts their
gaming. Considering that some go to LAN parties and the like, a redundant
disk system is not a bad idea in a gaming machine--in fact one with a
removable tray so you can leave a spare at home might not be too far
off-base.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Gamers don't care about that. Heheh.

I am a gamer and I emphatically don't want to loose my
set-up and my saved games for those that are not online....

After all I don't want to "play" reinstallation. It lacks
in almost every entertainment aspect, except being long ;-)

Arno

 

[Chris Klink]

Well, except that reinstalling everything after a crash interrupts their
gaming. Considering that some go to LAN parties and the like, a redundant
disk system is not a bad idea in a gaming machine--in fact one with a
removable tray so you can leave a spare at home might not be too far
off-base.

Yea, I was using the removable tray system for a while but ended up
building a second PC so needed the extra HDD's and am no longer using
the caddy system. I was running three OS's on the caddy system (XP,
Win98SE and Linux). On this particular PC I have two HDD's one 160gb
and one 80gb which gives me a fair amount of space for games. I just
installed Chronicles of Riddick last night which took up over 4gb of
space. I believe that's the largest game I've seen so far, 1gb is just
cut scenes. Excellent looking graphics in this game I must say.

 

[Trinity]

I am a gamer and I emphatically don't want to loose my
set-up and my saved games for those that are not online....

After all I don't want to "play" reinstallation. It lacks
in almost every entertainment aspect, except being long ;-)

Arno

Yea, I can see your logic but to me you are wasting a ton of space
that could be used to install more games on. I'll just take the risk
and hope for the best.

 

[J. Clarke]

Yea, I can see your logic but to me you are wasting a ton of space
that could be used to install more games on. I'll just take the risk
and hope for the best.

Disks are cheap, time is irreplaceable.