How to install RAID 0?

you know that one high speed raptor in general use is faster than two lesser drives in RAID 0?

RAID 0 only improves performance when you are putting large stress on the HD, it will not improve your frames on your games, it will not make basic actions and basic usage faster. Things like rendering and editing large files (as it multiple gigabyte files) otherwise a RAID is pointless for an end user.

Maybe photoshop work would utilize it, but then again I doubt it.
 
tlarkin said:
you know that one high speed raptor in general use is faster than two lesser drives in RAID 0?

RAID 0 only improves performance when you are putting large stress on the HD, it will not improve your frames on your games, it will not make basic actions and basic usage faster. Things like rendering and editing large files (as it multiple gigabyte files) otherwise a RAID is pointless for an end user.

Maybe photoshop work would utilize it, but then again I doubt it.
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What do you think I should do? I don't want to buy a Raptor, will it help load times any?
 
well the access time is what really makes it read/write data fast. A raptor I think has a 4ms access time which is pretty freaking fast.

You can try partition schemes to reduce access time. For example if you put the OS and all applications on a 75 gig partition the drive only has to search through 75 gigs rather than 500 or whatever the full capacity is. This is known to reduce seek times, but does not speed up access time.

Really your best performance will be from buying a high speed sata drive like a raptor.

RAID 0 should make your boot time and general load time faster but ultimately its not worth the risk since your system is more vulnerable for failure because if the OS or file system have issues on one drive then the whole RAID crashes. Is it worth it to make your game load a few seconds faster, but not gain any performance in the game over losing your data?
 
tlarkin said:
well the access time is what really makes it read/write data fast. A raptor I think has a 4ms access time which is pretty freaking fast.

You can try partition schemes to reduce access time. For example if you put the OS and all applications on a 75 gig partition the drive only has to search through 75 gigs rather than 500 or whatever the full capacity is. This is known to reduce seek times, but does not speed up access time.

Really your best performance will be from buying a high speed sata drive like a raptor.

RAID 0 should make your boot time and general load time faster but ultimately its not worth the risk since your system is more vulnerable for failure because if the OS or file system have issues on one drive then the whole RAID crashes. Is it worth it to make your game load a few seconds faster, but not gain any performance in the game over losing your data?
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No, not really, should I add another drive? I already have a 250Gb...
 
I mean if its performance you are after the high speed SATA drives are the way to go. If its just storage for data add another drive and dump all of your data on one drive and use the other for OS/Applications.
 
tlarkin said:
I mean if its performance you are after the high speed SATA drives are the way to go. If its just storage for data add another drive and dump all of your data on one drive and use the other for OS/Applications.
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I might add a Raptor later, will I have to reinstall Windows?
 
Yes you will need to reinstall windows and all applications on the raptor to benefit from the hardware's boosted performance.
 
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