RAID Card suggestions?

[FTPCraft]

I'm planning on building a gaming rig with 2 Western digital 1TB Blacks in raid 1.

Any suggestions?

 

 

 

Thx

--FTPCraft

[Oshino Shinobu]

Don't bother with a RAID card with just a simple 2 drive RAID. Using the onboard controller is fine for that. 

[manikyath]

if its just a raid 1, might as well just do it trough the motherboard.

 

that said, raid isnt the solution anymore.

[dalekphalm]

I'm planning on building a gaming rig with 2 Western digital 1TB Blacks in raid 1.

Any suggestions?

 

 

 

Thx

--FTPCraft

As others have mentioned, I would recommend using the onboard Motherboard RAID 1 feature, rather then actually buying a RAID card. With 1TB WD Black's, you're unlikely to see a real world difference in performance.

 

With that in mind, is there a particular reason you want to use RAID 1 w/ HDD's for your gaming PC?

 

Will this be a storage only RAID setup, or will you be installing the OS too? I highly recommend installing the OS onto a completely separate SSD as your primary drive, and then use HDD's (whether RAID 1 or just a single drive) as your large storage data drive.

 

You can store games on the HDD if you'd like - it won't impact performance much for the majority of games, aside from loading screens. If you can afford it, however, I'd spring for a larger SSD, like a 500GB, as your primary OS drive - and then install all your favourite games to the SSD, with any remaining games being installed onto your secondary HDD.