I wanna raid for ut3..

[{|xDi|}DaMaGE!]

I have 2, 60 gig 7200rpm maxtors ide ultra ata 133 NOT raided, just one for the os/programs, and the other as a dump drive. Ever since i upgraded, i kept my two maxtors which are not native sata. but my new boards raid is sata, so i cant raid my drives,with 2 sata slots on it perfectly waiting for me to be happily ever after with a pair of raided harddrives, its killin me! But i would love to convert them and raid them and save me some money instead of buying new sata hd's since i found some addaptors for dirt cheap. My question is about the ide ata to sata conversion adapters, what do you guys think?


IDE Ultra ATA 100/133 To Serial SATA Adapters ???


What do you guys think of these adapters? cluster f#@k situations? only 1.5 transfer rate compared to to new drives with 3.0 worth it? would the raiding the two 7200 rmp maxtors for be worth the converstion? ****! lol

[Hedge-o-Matic]

What does this have to do with UT?

[{|xDi|}DaMaGE!]

What does this have to do with UT?

ut runs on a computer, and im talking about computers, and they both meet when i want to run ut3 more effeciantly, hence asking a question for opinions on what/how i could/should set up for ut3. lol thats what it has to do with ut

[FrostBiteEST]

Why you didnt saved your money for demo?Maybe some new videocard comes out tomorrow and your is already old.U get what i mean?

[DagnyTaggart]

I'd be interested in having a very fast hard drive, say a Raptor, a SCSI, or a SATA drive since the map and texture files could be large and might take a long time to load.

[ViperGrendal]

You could use something like this, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812206002 but I doubt you're gonna get much benefit from running a RAID(0) setup. From what I've read here and there the onboard Sata Raid controllers don't show much difference in load times etc with games. Only big benefit I could see is making two 60 gig drives look like a 120gig and maybe some speed boost in situations with a lot of read/writes. I'd suggest reading up on RAID setups before you do anything.

If you want real noticable speed boost a fast hard drive (ie Raptor) will get you more performance.

[Boksha]

You forgot to mention the chances of losing all of your data in a harddrive crash nearly doubles. (i.e. one of the two drives drops and you're doomed)

[Magwa]

You forgot to mention the chances of losing all of your data in a harddrive crash nearly doubles. (i.e. one of the two drives drops and you're doomed)

That is why i have a 300gig external HD for backup.. my two raptor 70gig 10,000rpm drives i have in striped raid works great..

[MysTikal]

Just curious if Flak reads this - maybe a Hardware forum would be a good idea for hardware related problems. (Like the Steam Users Forums)

(sorry for off-topicness)

[Evil Homer]

Just curious if Flak reads this - maybe a Hardware forum would be a good idea for hardware related problems. (Like the Steam Users Forums)

(sorry for off-topicness)

Seconded! I think we really need a hardware forum....

[{|xDi|}DaMaGE!]

well, reading all these mixed reviews about them in that link really makes me doubt it, i presumed it would have its drawbacks, but after having my maxtors raided for the past forever years lol im still sad about seeing them not raided anymore ,. back when i first raided them you would see a HUGE performance gain. I would install ***** at blisteringly fast times, everything was faster (harddrive related) , so ya, its a sad story, but i think im gonna leave them be seperate.
LOL i dream of raptors in my sleep every night, lol in not kidding, i can wait to afford a pair of those to raid! .. along with that dream, i dream about swaping my 2 1gig sticks of ram for 2 2gig sticks, and slaping in a 7800gt when my freind is ready to upgrade. lol **** this monopoly sytem!