If you want to set up raid, make sure you go with a hardware RAID controller (i.e. an add-in card), I've had quite a few disasters with onboard RAID. Granted, it was my own fault for running RAID 0, but still, onboard RAID is just asking for trouble.
mackintosh wrote: If you want to set up raid, make sure you go with a hardware RAID controller (i.e. an add-in card), I've had quite a few disasters with onboard RAID. Granted, it was my own fault for running RAID 0, but still, onboard RAID is just asking for trouble.
Yeah other people have told me the same, but i have 5 extra SATAII ports just sat there not being used...
I have no need for CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives, so probably just throw on loads of hard drives instead. xD
sethiroth66 wrote: Yeah other people have told me the same, but i have 5 extra SATAII ports just sat there not being used...
I have no need for CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives, so probably just throw on loads of hard drives instead. xD
A masochist, eh? Well, at least you can't say you weren't warned
I had two of WD's Raptors and two big ass data drives in RAID 0 configs way back when (i.e. before SSDs) and for a while, it was glorious. Until the controller started playing up. Drives would unlink, drop out, corrupt, lose data, it was horrible. As soon as SSDs came out, I bought one and never looked back since.
sethiroth66 wrote: Not much, but hoping for some upgrades later, torn between GFX, RAM or set up a hard drive RAID
Just a suggestion, I would get a better GPU, it would give you the biggest performance boost, then either RAM or RAID, either one would give you about the same increase.
Intel Quad-Core Q8200 @ 2.8Ghz (really old, need to upgrade this to an i7 A.S.A.P.)
8GB DDR3 RAM
2GB nVidia GTX 560 Ti
My monitor's pretty old, so I'm not running this at nearly the resolution I'm capable of (I'm at 1680x1050 right now), but it's beautiful nonetheless. With VSync on, I haven't yet dropped more than two frames below 60 FPS.
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