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So coming up in a few days I'm going to be getting me a new motherboard to almost finish up my new "budget" build.

It is a SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 with a FX 6300, 8gb Crucial 1600 ram single (for now). 

The MB supports Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10 on main Sata 3 ports.

 

I have a refurb 1 tb Western Digital black Sata 3 and two used 1 tb Western Digital black Sata 2s. 

 

Would I see a difference raiding the two Sata 2 drives vs the Sata 3 single? It would be for steam games mainly so probably Raid 0.

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So coming up in a few days I'm going to be getting me a new motherboard to almost finish up my new "budget" build.

It is a SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 with a FX 6300, 8gb Crucial 1600 ram single (for now). 

The MB supports Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10 on main Sata 3 ports.

 

I have a refurb 1 tb Western Digital black Sata 3 and two used 1 tb Western Digital black Sata 2s. 

 

Would I see a difference raiding the two Sata 2 drives vs the Sata 3 single? It would be for steam games mainly so probably Raid 0.

are you planing to oc your cpu?, if not then get the m5a99fx pro or m5a97 r2.0

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are you planing to oc your cpu?, if not then get the m5a99fx pro or m5a97 r2.0

That wasn't exactly what he asked...

 

OP: You may get better performance RAIDing the two drives, but you should just keep them separate in the event that one dies.

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are you planing to oc your cpu?, if not then get the m5a99fx pro or m5a97 r2.0

Eventually yes plus it's coming out to free for the board so meh nice warranty. 

 

That wasn't exactly what he asked...

 

OP: You may get better performance RAIDing the two drives, but you should just keep them separate in the event that one dies.

Thanks for an appropriate reply. I wasn't sure if noticeable and worth it or not. They cost me $40 for both and I got a backup box for important stuff. 

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Eventually yes plus it's coming out to free for the board so meh nice warranty. 

 

Thanks for an appropriate reply. I wasn't sure if noticeable and worth it or not. They cost me $40 for both and I got a backup box for important stuff. 

Nice price on them. :D

 

Game loading times won't be significantly reduced by RAIDing the drives, and if one does die then it won't take down your whole games library. I would suggest keeping them separate unless you don't mind this risk.

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Hi there, what TheSLSAMG says is right.

You can set up the two WD black Sata 2 drives in RAID 0 configuration, which will increase the performance rather insignificantly -  with about 2-3 seconds faster load time.

However, the risk when using RAID 0 is that it provides no redundancy.

Since you have mentioned you are backing up the important data and if you don't mind taking this risk, you can give it a try.

 

Cheers,

Dorian_WD

Western Digital Representative

http://www.wdc.com/en/

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