RAID 0
- Thread starter Lollipop
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Don't go with the 4 drives.
I was all for RAID 0 and had been using it for around 14 months until one of my drives died and I had got a bit lax in my backing up. I didn't lose too much important data but I lost plenty of programs I hadn't watched yet.
I'd say if you're going down that route, then minimize the risk and use two drives and back up regularly. If you want to go 4 drives, then back up religiously!!!
If you are lazy with backups, then just buy the 2TB drive.
I was all for RAID 0 and had been using it for around 14 months until one of my drives died and I had got a bit lax in my backing up. I didn't lose too much important data but I lost plenty of programs I hadn't watched yet.
I'd say if you're going down that route, then minimize the risk and use two drives and back up regularly. If you want to go 4 drives, then back up religiously!!!
If you are lazy with backups, then just buy the 2TB drive.
Well, again it depends on how lazy you are should you get a failure.
You will still need to reinstall everything and get all your programs set up how you like them.
That is unless you image your PC of course.
I have to say, going from a single drive to 2x1TB drives in RAID 0, I didn't notice too much difference. I did notice a small difference when I went back to a single drive though only in certain situations. That said, it wasn't anything bad or dramatic.
It really does depend on if you care about the risk or not. Once you know what RAID 0 is and how it works, then you're as clued up as the rest of us and only you can know which way you want to go.
The read and writes will increase with each extra drive, as does the potential chance of failure which will require a rebuild.
Basically, I think it comes down to how lazy you are.
Ooo that said, if you're not moving large data regularly, then having the benefits of RAID 0 will be negated somewhat. It might help with game level loading times, but not by much.
You will still need to reinstall everything and get all your programs set up how you like them.
That is unless you image your PC of course.
I have to say, going from a single drive to 2x1TB drives in RAID 0, I didn't notice too much difference. I did notice a small difference when I went back to a single drive though only in certain situations. That said, it wasn't anything bad or dramatic.
It really does depend on if you care about the risk or not. Once you know what RAID 0 is and how it works, then you're as clued up as the rest of us and only you can know which way you want to go.
The read and writes will increase with each extra drive, as does the potential chance of failure which will require a rebuild.
Basically, I think it comes down to how lazy you are.
Ooo that said, if you're not moving large data regularly, then having the benefits of RAID 0 will be negated somewhat. It might help with game level loading times, but not by much.
S_I_N
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for games and such a single drive is enough. I do 4 drive raid 0 because I like the speed I get 900ish read and 300ish write with my 4 blacks in raid 0 my 4 drives are broken down into 2 separate riads spanning all 4 drives. I have whats called a short stroked raid o I call games its 10% of each drive (this keeps the seek times down as it only uses the faster part of the drive) then I have the rest allocated to storage in another raid 0
dugdiamond
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i would get 1x wd 2tb sata3 for the OS
once the OS is installed, shrink the drive size down to about 500gb, and then created a new partition in the new available space (~1.45gb)
along with this i would then get 3x 500gb drives in raid0
these raid can be backed up on the OS disk in the newly created space
it should be ample
once the OS is installed, shrink the drive size down to about 500gb, and then created a new partition in the new available space (~1.45gb)
along with this i would then get 3x 500gb drives in raid0
these raid can be backed up on the OS disk in the newly created space
it should be ample
