RAID 0 for Games

[Thijsvu]

Hey,

 

Quick overview about my configuration:

1x 500GB NVME SSD Samsung 970 EVO - OS

1x 1000GB NVME SSD WD Black - Game Launchers (Blizzard, EA, Steam, Ubisoft etc.) are installed here and my favorite Games (which i play regularly).

1x 1000GB SATA SSD Samsung 860 EVO - DATA and software.

2x 4000GB  SATA HDD Seagate Barracuda - RAID 1 for Movies and Series (I like to keep my movies so i can see which i have seen)

2x 8000GB SATA HDD Seagate Barracuda - RAID 0 for Games (As gamefiles are all stored on the server at Steam/Ubisoft/EA, there's not much to lose if one of the drives fail)

 

I used Window 10 storage features to make the partitions.

 

But I'm having some troubles;

As the games i play most often are on a "normal" drive, i hadn't noticed before. But games from Uplay don't seem to launch from the raid partition.

I also had my EA games (Origin Launcher) installed on the RAID 0, but every time it located the games on the RAID partition, the launcher would crash and i would be unable to get it to work again, unless i reinstalled it (but the moment i located a game, it'd crash again)

 

Is windows "Storage Spaces" not a good fit to make RAID's? or what can i do to use the mass storage for Uplay and Origin? as the 1TB NVME is quite full and i don't feel like moving my games around all the time, that's why i made the raid XD

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[Dedayog]

I have no issue with loading games off RAID 0.  I wonder if it's the size tho, you have 8GB drives in RAID, I only have 1TB SSD's in RAID.

 

Just to confirm that a regular RAID 0 isn't an issue for Steam/Uplay/Blizz/ ARC, etc