Scorpion_Vista Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 My new mobo supports raid, i was thinking of using raid-0 for better performance, but in the quick user guide for raid supplied with the mobo, it says msi recommends using two identical drives as part of an array, if striping for performance use two new drives, and it states for optimal performance they must be identical, same make and model. But my existing drive is a fujitsu 40gb and i'm getting a western digital 120gb with 8mb buffer, so is it still worth using raid? would the new hard drive slow down to the performance of the old one? i'd appreciate any help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxrider623 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 I've heard that raid setups are slower than just one hard drive but i've never had a raid setup so i dont know for sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolDfiNger Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 no with those two drives i would not use raid, but i would put your os and all your games and apps on th wd with the 8mb cache Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptkook Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 with those drives you don't want to run raid. Although raid 0 is faster than a single drive, it will only format to the lowest storage drive. In your case the 40Gb, so only 40Gb's will be used from you 120Gb which means you'll have 80Gb of unusable drive space. But you could buy another 40Gb drive and put the two 40Gb together to give you some increased performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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