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The best RAID setup for internal HDD and does it actually make sense to use it all for gaming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Uluganda@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have 500gb SSD and need to basically uninstall Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 to install Baldur's Gate 3. I want to buy new SSD, but my money is a bit tight right now as I'm saving for my degree's tuition fee.

I'm thinking of buying 3x500GB spinning HDD that will cost me around $20. I know it wont be as fast as SSD, but I read/watched about RAID, and saw amazing result. Around 400-500MBPs, which should be more than enough for gaming, imo. If I were to buy the same amount of storage but SSD, it will cost me $100.

I dont really need redundancy, as all of my personal documents are backed up in my server and I have separate disk just for my data archieve. It will only be used to game and game only.

Do you think that my idea makes sense? Is it does..., I want to ask another questions.

I knew I wanted to use RAID 0, but after I read arch wiki, it says that RAID 5 is superior. Should I use BTRFS, EXT4, ZFS, or F2FS? What kernel or module should I use?

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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Raid 0 on 3x500GB triples your failure rate (especially important on older drives, as I presume these are), and still won't get anywhere near an SSD in speed.

You could just mount the 3 drives separately and have storage that way, which means if one fails you've still got the data on the other two.. it'd still suck but not as bad as losing everything.

If it was me I'd wait until I could afford the SSD.. it'll be many times faster and newer.

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I mean it's worth a shot. OP knows that much. If it works out, it'd tide them over until they get a new ssd

[–] Uluganda@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will only use it for game data. I highly value my personal data so I wont put anything remote to worthy in it, I have nas, separate drive, and even Google Drive. If it fails, the worst thing that will happen is I need to redownload all my games from Steam. It will be a bummer, but I think I should be able to restore the first game in matter of hours. My save data will be saved on Steam anyway.

Yeah, single hdd is only around 150mbps, not bad, but I saw 4 hdd can get to 600mbps, which is in realm of sata ssd. I'm just thinking to giving a shot, beside it's only $20. If one fail, I still have 1tb.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Are you accounting for stuff like SATA cables and cradle mounts for the HDDs in your cost calculation?