TS140 Gameserver RAID question

[verb.zero]

I’m new to the forums here with LTT,

I don’t have the most advanced network and I’m not trying to run a NAS environment pushing 1g+ network speed. I don’t have a movie collection and I stream music via Spotify which is why I’m not looking into it. What I am looking into is how to make my “gaming/web/dedicated server” more efficient.

Currently I am running a Lenovo TS140 that I picked up for around $250 new from Newegg with the Xeon processor. I threw a SanDisk SDD plus the stock 500bg wd 7.2k rpm. I am running Server2012 on it with 8bg of ram currently.

What I am worried about is backup the game server information and keeping it this server running efficiently but I’ve been stuck on running some sort of RAID configuration. I looked into a few things on RAID but I’ve never done it. So to get some clarity I have to have something like 5 hard drives right? One running the OS and the 4 that will be running something like RAID5?

I am running a ARK:SE server on it so if decide to run the OS on let’s say drive “0”  and try to install the game server files on the RAID setup would the OS freak out since the files are being copied/moved or is this okay? If this is the case then do I create something like a scheduled event to a .bat files that would copy the files over the RAID drives to store the important files?

I feel like there are allot of information about what RAID is and the different types but not quite on how it works in conjunction with an operating system and what can put on it other than files. I know if a really spend some times looking or knew how to word this in google that I would pop up but I would like to get some direct input into this. The TS140 has a built in RAID controller but I would need to get a card that would control it better right?

TLTR: Trying to setup a game server with RAID and how would I use RAID to backup dedicated game server files from anything like ARK/Minecraft to not loose data.

 

[Jarsky]

A RAID1 requires 2 disks, A RAID5 requires 3 disks at a minimum.

 

Personally I would install and run the applications off the SSD for maximum performance.

You can then create a snapshot or back those files up to another disk or a RAID.

 

What are you trying to achieve by having RAID?

Are you planning to run ARK or the Webserver off the SSD, or the RAID?