i have two sata sockets on my board doing nowt. what would be the benefits and complications of RAIDing 2 hard-drives on them. ideally i want my games to load twice as fast. how realistic is this?
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i have two sata sockets on my board doing nowt. what would be the benefits and complications of RAIDing 2 hard-drives on them. ideally i want my games to load twice as fast. how realistic is this?
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I dont think they'll load twice as fast. From what i hear SATA drives are pretty good. Whats your current specs?Originally Posted by TheDave
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athlon64 3000+ @ 2200
512 ddr
fsb@200mhz
how fast does a hard-drive read? i think its 25 MBps (SATA or IDE)
i know with a RAID card 2 striped drives can act as one hdd at 50 MBps
i'm wondering if its possible/easy to RAID my two sata slots (in windows is probably best, bios settings scare me)
all this is presuming they arent on the same channel
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LMAO u guys crack me up...
theres is no BIG advantage of SATA over normal IDE slots except SATA cables are very thin so it saves space
and no ur games wond load twice as fast
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maybe i worded it wrong.LMAO u guys crack me up...
theres is no BIG advantage of SATA over normal IDE slots except SATA cables are very thin so it saves space
and no ur games wond load twice as fast
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on my board i have
IDE 1
master: 120gb
slave: dvd reader
IDE 2
master: dvd writer
slave: empty
sata 1: empty
sata 2: empty
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i'm not happy with the speeds stuff loads, i blame this on the hard-drive.
it looks to me the cheapest and most hassle-free way to fix this is to get two cheap (small) sata drives and stripe them. then i can use them as temp, swap space and install games on them. i'm wondering if it's possible and if its easy to do this
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Dave you mean your fsb is at 2000mhz? Cuz I know for a fact that AMD64's arent at 200what pc is your ram? For games to load fast im pretty sure that it mainly depends on your ram/cpu but im not 100% sure im not a comp guru. Just one in the making
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i cant remember quite how it works, just vague memories from scanning over stuff when i built my pc.
my processor is 11 layers each at 200mhz(fsb) totalling 2200mhz
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Search on google for a little app called CPU-Z its tells you about your cpu speed, fsb ect. Unless you have sisoft sandra or somethin like that on hand. Eaither or is goodi cant remember quite how it works, just vague memories from scanning over stuff when i built my pc.
my processor is 11 layers each at 200mhz(fsb) totalling 2200mhz
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anyway, thats irrelevent. i know my RAM can shift stuff faster than a HDD
Last edited by TheDave; 04-02-2005 at 04:53 AM.
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Not very, unfortunately.
Although you might notice a slight improvement ( I have RAIDed my system twice, desperately hoping to see a big difference...didn't happen), the risk involved is significant.
Any problem (hardware or data) on one drive and the entire array is junk.
Your best bang for the buck (and even this is debatable) is to use a Raptor ( preferably the bigger, faster 74GB) for your OS and apps.
Huh?
Of course there is a speed increase using SATA over IDE...it is easily measured and hard to deny.
Whether his applications will utilize that increase in a noticable way is arguable, but the basic superiority of SATA is not.
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, i blame this on the hard-drive.
what pc is your ram? For games to load fast im pretty sure that it mainly depends on your ram/cpu but im not 100% sure im not a comp guru. Just one in the making 
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