using a raid setup and another hdd

[steveninspokane]

My set up is:

1 500 gig HD
2 36 gig Raptors(running as RAID so it makes up 1 72gig HD)
Using RAID-0

i want to do everything with the 500 gig and run games with the 72 gig.

right now in order for me to do to play a game on the 72 gig, ive got to restart the comp, go into the BIOS and change the MASTER to the 72gig and than play again, than to go back to the 500 gig ive got to restart the computer go into BIOS and switch it back to the 500gig, than i can use my 500gig again.

is there a way i can run the game program from the 72gig, while remaining using the the 500gig?

for instance booting up on the 500gig, but starting the game and playing on it from the 72 gig, without having to reboot and change all those settings?

ive tried to explain this as best i could.
thanks in advance.

 

[Pinchy]

Yes you can.

What you have to do is uninstall/format windows on the 72gig drive. Then, make the 500GB first boot priority and it will boot from the 500GB. Once in windows it will pick up the 72gb drive, and you can install all games/programs straight onto it.

 

[steveninspokane]

so i dont even put windows vista on the 72gig?

 

[Pinchy]

Nope run it only off your 500GB and then once in Vista running off the 500GB just install all programs to the 72GB (Like during the install, specify the Raptor raid drives as installation path)

 

[steveninspokane]

ok now these are 2 36gig raptors, am i going to notice any difference in speed running a game in the method listed?

 

[Pinchy]

Yeah loading times (like loading maps and so forth) will be very fast. It wont increase your FPS or anything though.

 

[steveninspokane]

cause im wondering if i had them set up wrong, it seemed my 500gig loaded maps faster, alot faster,

500gig = 32 MB cache
72gig = 8 MB cache


could that be why? so than with the bigger cache, would i be better off just using the 500gig?

 

[smig]

yes, the small cache for the 36gb ones.
I may also guess the 36gb ones are SATA1 only, with slower speed.

I wonder if it's worth having them in the system at all.

 

[Pinchy]

Run a HD tach benchmark.

I think the raptors should still be faster, especially as they will have a combined 16mb cache when in RAID.

 

[allen337]

Boot to the 500 gig and then go into your computer and the D drive or whatever the 2-36gigers are on and then open it and program files (or whereever you installed the games on the 36 gigers and put a shortcut to the run.exe (right click it and send to desktop create shortcut) of the game and it should play on the 500 gigger.