RAID & playing games

Hi,

I recently was gifted a VIA KT333 chipset motherboard by Asus that supports RAID

thinking of making that my primary PC and giving my current one to my dad or other family member

my question is should i set it up using RAID or leave it as 4 IDE connectors giving my 2 HDs, DVD player, and CDR their own link and not share it

don't worry i have 2 80GB WD 8MB HDs

if someone does recommend that i use the RAID feature which way do i set i up? i value performance more than the redunancy of RAID

any comments before i take matters into my own hands and not have anyone else to blame for future problems?

Ren

I think RAID 2 is the best for home use. If my memory serves me correctly this is the one that splits files across many disks and therefore gives quicker access. That is though, only when you want many files at once.

thanks Glyn....I was going to go with RAID 2 but wondered if anyone has any idea how big/small to set the stripe

Are both hard discs identical?

AFAIK they need to be

yep both are HD are the same, 80GB Western Digital "Special" aka 8MB cache

so my thinking since i have 4 IDE connectors

1 - raid HD 1
2 - raid HD 2
3 - DVD & CDR
4 - 120 or 180 GB for general storage

that sounds right.

have you got enought HD space there? :P (and heres me thinking that 120gb is enough for a pc (not enough for my laptop tho :P :P))

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Haha, I have about a total of 25Gig

Ive got a 120Gb drive, and a 20Gb drive and they are both full

More is never enough

RAID 0 (zero) is actually the performace one.

RAID 1 is to back data from one disk directly to another, and others are a combination of the above, other than JDOB, which is literally Just a Bunch Of Disks.

With that motherboard (I used to have one), you can connect the 2 HDDs to the RAID controller (use 2 seperate IDE cables) and connect you other devices (CD, DVD, etc) to the usual, regular IDE connectors.

Just for comparisons sake, I have a RAID 0 setup, with 2x 40GB WD 8mb drives, and 1 regular 100gb WD 8mb