rec.autos.simulators

by **Jason** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 08:42:29

:)

Well this conversation is just too cozy. Let's heat it up a bit shall we
Rod?

I say FREEBSD is King... are you a Linux Lover?

Just kidding of course.

Haven't had any of the experiences you mentioned on my configs. but I guess
I've been lucky. In fact, I've only really experienced a strange Maxtor HDD
compatibility problem on an Adaptec 3200S SCSI RAID controller. Firmware
update fixed that, but that's about it (fingas crossed).

Cheers,

Schumi

> > However, I only use Mylex controllers, which hot-swap is
> > basically a standard feature :)

> Yuk. Still being required to repair Digital Servers with
> the 3 channel Mylex controllers, I sympathise. ;)

> Had too many cases where the failed drive on a BA356
> wasn't neccessarily the faulty drive running on a Mylex. Just
> last week had a replacement drive come up as a standby when
> it was replaced, used daccf to clear and redo the config
> and it just blew away everything. Something that's 'not meant
> to happen' ;/

> But my experience with the Mylex stopped with the premature
> death of the Prioris Server.

> But give me a SmartArray over a Mylex anyday! ;)

> Cheers,
> Rod.

by **JOHN METCO** » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:09:29

As you know
RAID 0 is stripping and can decrease your loading time
for games.

These days , games are VERY big and memory intense.
LOADING TIMES is one of my biggest compliant
and I really look forward to getting RAID for this purpose !!

> "mission critical". Hmm, hard disk crashes, you lose your OS,
applications,
> games, game data (such as car setups), etc. It can take an awfully long
time
> to restore things to an approximation of what you had before - I guess it
> all depends on your definition of mission critical.

> Those motherboards can also be used with a more conventional hard disk
> config (i.e. no redundancy), so you are not really any worse off, given
that
> the RAID systems on those motherboards don't add more than a few dollars
to
> the cost.

> Cheers
> Hamish

> > I'm asking this here since I'm interested in upgrading mostly for racing
> GPL
> > and N4 and am looking for a simple answer if there is one.

> > I notice a lot of the high end motherboards have a RAID controller built
> in.
> > I think I understand what RAID is, but why would I as a gamer (who has
no
> > "mission critical" info on his hard drive) want it?

by **Aviato** » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:41:05

John, the word is striping. A lot of companies misspelled the word for some
reason or another. It relates to the input of information onto multiple
hard disks concurrently. As a result, when the computer seeks information
from the hard drives, it accesses information from multiple hard drives
simultaneously. I doubt however, that your actual game play would improve
the performance as a result, as most games, once loaded have a very low
requirement for hard disk access

> These days , games are VERY big and memory intense.
> LOADING TIMES is one of my biggest compliant
> and I really look forward to getting RAID for this purpose !!

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> > "mission critical". Hmm, hard disk crashes, you lose your OS,
> applications,
> > games, game data (such as car setups), etc. It can take an awfully long
> time
> > to restore things to an approximation of what you had before - I guess
it
> > all depends on your definition of mission critical.

> > Those motherboards can also be used with a more conventional hard disk
> > config (i.e. no redundancy), so you are not really any worse off, given
> that
> > the RAID systems on those motherboards don't add more than a few dollars
> to
> > the cost.

> > Cheers
> > Hamish

> > > I'm asking this here since I'm interested in upgrading mostly for
racing
> > GPL
> > > and N4 and am looking for a simple answer if there is one.

> > > I notice a lot of the high end motherboards have a RAID controller
built
> > in.
> > > I think I understand what RAID is, but why would I as a gamer (who has
> no
> > > "mission critical" info on his hard drive) want it?