Hello, again I'm Rodney Reynolds from 3DGameMan.com. This next question is what is RAID, what's the best RAID setup for a gaming rig and how do you install it? Well, first of all RAID stand for redundant ray of independent disk or redundant ray of inexpensive disk. I'm going to be talking about two of the most common types of RAID in this video RAID0 and RAID1. RAID0 is straight volume and data is evenly spread across two or more hard drives. This way the load is shared across those hard drives and performance is really, really good.
Now, RAID1 is a mirror volume and it’s exactly what it sounds like. Basically it’s one hard drive backing up the other one. That is a fantastic one to go with if you want to have security, so you don’t want to lose any data. Go with that particular setup because for example if one hard drive fails you just pop in another one and all of your data is safe. Capacity is the other issue and if you have RAID into your configuration and you have two 500 gigabyte hard drives you're going to get one terabyte or 1000 gigabyte. So 500+500=1000, now the math doesn’t equate the same in a RAID1 configuration because the VF2 500 gigabyte hard drives it’s only going to give you a capacity of 500 gigabytes because one drive is backed up. But it’s the safest way to go, RAID1 if you want a performance go with RAID0.
RAID0 might sound scary but it’s not. I've been using RAID0 configurations for years and I've never ever had a problem. Now, the other factor to consider in a RAID0 setup is the drive size, 128 kilobytes is a pretty safe one to go with. If you have small file sizes go with something lower than that. So how do you set it up, well you need to do so at Booth Up and it’s going to depend really on what type of motherboard you have. The keys that you press when you're booting up to get into your RAID controller but go in there upon Booth Up and go into your RAID control and configure your RAID0 configuration.
The other thing to it of course, if you have you know a PCI controller separate from the motherboard and then you need to do that of course during put up as well and once that’s done we need to install the latest drivers, for the Vista Operating System and it’s very easily done. You can just dump those drivers on a USB driver with Vista’s RAID and ask for them. You can just direct Vista to search your USB drive and find those drivers and believe me I'm been using RAID0 over a single drive is amazing. I hope this answers your question and keep your questions coming.
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