Can somebody please explain RAID for me? I saw a few posts on whether their rig would be faster with it, but I'm still not clear on when to use it...thanks ahead of time.
raid is basically two or more HDs working together to either: become 1 big drive (ex, 2X250gb = 500gb drive) This is called RAID 0. There is also RAID 1 that is 1 drive as a backup of another drive (ex 2 250gb drives, 1 is a copy of the other).
RAID is when you have 2 hard drives mirror each other...
for example if you have 2 150 GB hard drives, it will run much faster then say a 300 GB drive. With RAID 1, the hard drive copy each other , but the downside is if one hard drive dies, well say good bye to both of em...
most common use of raid is small drive with huge drive for storage....
EX.
74 GB SATA 10 K RPM raptor drive for OS and Games.
250 GB SATA 7200 RPM drive for evreything else
Il let someone else explain what RAID 1 is or RAID 1/0
Perfect...thanks everybody. I'm trying to get a performance boost in my games and it's come to my attention lately that it may be my hard drive slowing it down. but I also thought I took care of that problem with more RAM. See the sig below.
yeah i don't think there's much more that you can upgrade. i'm not familiar with ATIs so i dunno if thats a good card or not, but 2gb is more than enough, and i dunno how much a faster HD will help. I've heard raid isn't much of a performance increase though.