Advice on RAID 0

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Scrubcat

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I am an avid reader of these forums and could usually find my answer by searching, however I feel that my situation is a bit more personalized than any I have come across recently.

I currently play WoW and would like to be able to capture via FRAPS with as little "lag" as possible. I know that FRAPS is a CPU as well as hard drive intensive application, and I have been advised that dedicating a hard drive to FRAPS and nothing else would help the situation.

Currently I run my FRAPS in full size mode with 30 FPS rate, and do not record sound. This setup allows it to be playable, but it is not as smooth as I would prefer.

Anyway, enough background information, heres the question:

I have the following hard drives:
-Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 500G
-Western Digital 7200 RPM 320G
-Samsung SP0802N 7200 RPM 80G

I had read that RAID 0 increases performance based on spreading data across two HD's. Would it be possible to setup a RAID 0 for my OS etc, and then dedicate the Samsung to FRAPS/Music ?

Also, do you think because the Samsung is not a SATA and uses a Ribbon that it would actually hinder the performance of FRAPS to write data to the drive?

Alot of typing sorry was just trying to be thorough. Thanks for any help! :good:
 
How hard does fraps hit when you record video? I seem to remember being able to without much of a performance hit. It could be as simple as you trying to record in too high of a resolution. If you have a second drive try recording to it instead of the active one.
 
Yeah Right now I have my seagate set for the FRAPS recordings, and I use the Western Digital for my Win XP and everything else.

Ive read that different brands of hard drives dont raid well together, but I also read that if they are the same speed that it can work..

So If I want to set the Western Digital & Seagate to RAID 0 would this be possible without a reinstall of Win XP?
 
if you want to try raid on your main hard disk, everything will be deleted, and the larger hard drive will basically shrink itself down to match the exact size of the smallest raided drive.
 
Okay only question I have now is how to get the specific raid driver from the Application file I downloaded from NIVIDIA?

The application size is 52MB, which is obviously too large to put on a floppy disk.

Any advice?
 
The driver for the windows install is different than that one. I can't seem to find a download the correct driver though you could probably unpack the nforce package and get it from there.
 
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