Wifeaggro13 wrote: »
A potato... might as well be literally...
MSI Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard
Intel i7 6700 CPU
Be Quiet! Pure Rock cooler
Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black 2x8 GB 2400 Mhz RAM
2TB WD Black 7200rmp HDD
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
MSI 1070 Gaming X GPU
650W EVGA SuperNOVA GS Fully Modular 80 PLUS Gold Whisper Quiet PSU
Fractal Design Define R5 Blackout Edition Case
Acer 24" Monitor (hope I will find some cheap 4k one soon)
Corsair Gaming Headset
Corsair Gaming K40 Raptor Keyboard RGB
Corsair Gaming M65 Pro RGB FPS Mouse
Have a Razer Naga Trinity mouse too (don't like it)
HDD sets, I mean: six drives in total. You can do three-way mirroring if you want but a gaming rig isn't exactly that mission-critical, especially as I backup my saves to my server (which also gets backed up) on a regular basis. I have previously used RAID 5 and 6 on my server but they were always glacially slow so it now uses RAID 10.FlyingSwan wrote: »
HDD sets, I mean: six drives in total. You can do three-way mirroring if you want but a gaming rig isn't exactly that mission-critical, especially as I backup my saves to my server (which also gets backed up) on a regular basis. I have previously used RAID 5 and 6 on my server but they were always glacially slow so it now uses RAID 10.FlyingSwan wrote: »
I5 2500
GTX 570
16 GB RAM
Ancient Technology. Still runs ESO great though.
monitor:
For the mirroring I meant just the most absolutely basic RAID-1, nothing fancy, so a simple 1:1 copy across all drives: not very efficient but fast and simple. My ventures into 5 and 6 (or more properly "z2" for the latter in my case as I'm using ZFS) may have managed acceptable performance with some form of caching but I wasn't about to do that with basic consumer-level hardware and no UPS... eek. I could've tried to convince myself it was nostalgic as it was so reminiscent of the days of waiting for a cassette to load, but it was just annoying!FlyingSwan wrote: »HDD sets, I mean: six drives in total. You can do three-way mirroring if you want but a gaming rig isn't exactly that mission-critical, especially as I backup my saves to my server (which also gets backed up) on a regular basis. I have previously used RAID 5 and 6 on my server but they were always glacially slow so it now uses RAID 10.FlyingSwan wrote: »
Ah ok, I read it as three drives in total. Yes, you can do three-way mirroring but it needs 5 or more drives, that's why I said not possible (as reading your post made me think of 3 drives not volumes). But yes R5 and 'traditional' R6 are dead, it's R0, R1 or R10 for us consumer types. R6 is used in SANs, but it's a very specific implementation and pays off with the large amount of drives in a cage.
But we digress, and one thing is certain, whatever RAID level, we'll still have glacially slow ESO loading screens... ;-)
For the mirroring I meant just the most absolutely basic RAID-1, nothing fancy, so a simple 1:1 copy across all drives: not very efficient but fast and simple. My ventures into 5 and 6 (or more properly "z2" for the latter in my case as I'm using ZFS) may have managed acceptable performance with some form of caching but I wasn't about to do that with basic consumer-level hardware and no UPS... eek. I could've tried to convince myself it was nostalgic as it was so reminiscent of the days of waiting for a cassette to load, but it was just annoying!FlyingSwan wrote: »HDD sets, I mean: six drives in total. You can do three-way mirroring if you want but a gaming rig isn't exactly that mission-critical, especially as I backup my saves to my server (which also gets backed up) on a regular basis. I have previously used RAID 5 and 6 on my server but they were always glacially slow so it now uses RAID 10.FlyingSwan wrote: »
Ah ok, I read it as three drives in total. Yes, you can do three-way mirroring but it needs 5 or more drives, that's why I said not possible (as reading your post made me think of 3 drives not volumes). But yes R5 and 'traditional' R6 are dead, it's R0, R1 or R10 for us consumer types. R6 is used in SANs, but it's a very specific implementation and pays off with the large amount of drives in a cage.
But we digress, and one thing is certain, whatever RAID level, we'll still have glacially slow ESO loading screens... ;-)
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Chazaquiel wrote: »Interested in what gaming computer and specs you are running ESO on, focussing on desktops, as I'm thinking of acquiring one.
FlyingSwan wrote: »Core i7 8700K @ 4.8GHz, 32GB RAM, EVGA GTX1080Ti FTW, 512GB M2 & 1TB SSD.
That spec is over-powered for ESO though, the game is poorly optimised so it doesn't really make the most of my PC.
I5 2500
GTX 570
16 GB RAM
Ancient Technology. Still runs ESO great though.
monitor: