Can someone plz tell me what RAID is?
And also, can someone plz tell me if the ASUS A7M/266 DDR is a good motherboard for gaming purposes?
Is there any other MOBO better than this one for my gaming purposes?
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Can someone plz tell me what RAID is?
And also, can someone plz tell me if the ASUS A7M/266 DDR is a good motherboard for gaming purposes?
Is there any other MOBO better than this one for my gaming purposes?
Techie:
Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks
Simple:
Few Disk that Function as One Big Disk in Order To Gain Speed, Availabilty And Fault Taulerance.
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Basically your data is more secure, how much more depends on the level of RAID you use, striping, parity, or both.
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I hope it will help
RAID 0 is Disk Striping; data is written and read over more than one physical disk (NOT partition). Because the I/O is distributed over more than one channel, spped is - supposedly - greatly enhanced. RAID 1 is Disk Mirroring is writing the same data to more than one disk simultaneously, so if you lose a disk, you don't lose your data. RAID 1+0 is a combination of the above which requires at least 4 disks. RAID 5 is Disk Striping With Parity, but that's something else again.
I've always liked this article: http://arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-1.html
It goes into detail about what each type of RAID is, with neat pictures.
BTW, that mobo you speak of will certainly do well for any game you can throw at it - if you don't mind shelling out the extra bucks for the DDR RAM. For gaming, I would be more concerned with the amount of RAM and the video card. Any CPU faster than 800 is going to sufficient for any game on the market today.