hd setup

z28spd · 01-25-2009, 04:46 PM

Hello everyone!

So seems that my WD raptor decided to crap out on me over my Christmas break :( good thing is it still has a warranty...somehow.

Anyways I am getting the new WD 74GB Raptor SATA and I also bought a WD Cavair 320GB SATA for storage so I don't lose everything again.

I was running an XP OS but am upgrading to Vista since I am anyways. I was wondering what the best setup is for setting up these hard drives. Should I use RAID or what not? HDs are not my expertise.

My main use for the computer is for gaming. Does anyone have any suggestions that would be helpful and how to go about doing it?

Thank you for your responses

**raptor_pa** · 01-25-2009, 05:24 PM

Building a raid requires matching or at least relatively close drives.... so that is not a good option... Run games off the fastest drive, put the pagefile on the disk without the OS

z28spd · 01-25-2009, 07:24 PM

thank you for the fast response. i figured that was the best option

01-25-2009, 04:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
z28spd Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	hd setup Hello everyone! So seems that my WD raptor decided to crap out on me over my Christmas break :( good thing is it still has a warranty...somehow. Anyways I am getting the new WD 74GB Raptor SATA and I also bought a WD Cavair 320GB SATA for storage so I don't lose everything again. I was running an XP OS but am upgrading to Vista since I am anyways. I was wondering what the best setup is for setting up these hard drives. Should I use RAID or what not? HDs are not my expertise. My main use for the computer is for gaming. Does anyone have any suggestions that would be helpful and how to go about doing it? Thank you for your responses

01-25-2009, 05:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,786 OS: XP	Re: hd setup Building a raid requires matching or at least relatively close drives.... so that is not a good option... Run games off the fastest drive, put the pagefile on the disk without the OS __________________

01-25-2009, 07:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
z28spd Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	Re: hd setup thank you for the fast response. i figured that was the best option