Originally posted by: Hacp
Raid 0 offers very little performance boost over regular hds. Like none at all.
Originally posted by: HellRaven
There is certainly a speed advantage to raid 0, but to me the benefits are outweighed by the complications and risk. If one of your drives decides it wants a little head on platter action your lose the data on the whole array. Since either drives failure will cause this, that means a 50% greater chance of losing your data. For those that backup frequently this is no big deal, but quite frankly - how many of us actually do? I myself don't backup as often as I should and don't have any important data, but the hassle of reinstalling everything is enough for me
So my opinion is that RAID isn't worth it unless your going to go all the way with RAID 5 and all SCSI drives (at which point your talking lots of $$$).
I think that an optimal setup for the hardcore gamer on a normal budget would be a high speed SATA drive (like a raptor) paired with a large capacity drive for storage. Honestly though, pretty much any old 7200 RPM hard drive with a large cache is probably going to be just fine.
Originally posted by: entropy1982
Originally posted by: Hacp
Raid 0 offers very little performance boost over regular hds. Like none at all.
I think these results contradict what you're saying Hacp
Originally posted by: krnxpride83
Originally posted by: entropy1982
Originally posted by: Hacp
Raid 0 offers very little performance boost over regular hds. Like none at all.
I think these results contradict what you're saying Hacp
shouldnt go by those synthetic test when comparing the real life performance...
those number merely mean NOTHING in real life time and performance..
for example.. as u have seen in the anandtech review.. raid did pretty much nothing in loading time of the games and so on..
"Because of the striping setup's overhead, the single Raptor WD740GD is faster than the RAID-0 machine, with a queue length of one and a transfer size of up to 32K. When the transfer size increases to 64K however, the two striped Raptors take the lead from the single drive. Increasing the number of operations in the I/O-queue to eight means the striped setup leaves the single Raptor in a cloud of dust. At peak performance, the RAID-configuration manages 99.6MB/s in a completely sequential reading pattern, versus 70.1MB/s for the single setup, even though the PCI bus is significantly limiting the RAID-controller's performance."
"The Business Winstone 2004 programs Internet Explorer, Outlook, PowerPoint, Norton Anti-Virus and WinZip generated just a little I/O activity, with an average load of eight percent. A safe conclusion would be that a Business Winstone 2004-benchmark alone is not a good starting point when testing RAID 0 performance."
"Our gaming traces show that most games have very little impact on modern hard drives and generate a rather low load. Even the heavyweight champion Battlefield Vietnam was able to burden a Raptor WD360GD for only 17,1 percent average with a short peak of 70 percent. Other games had even lower averages and didn't rise above 80 percent peak usage. Therefore we conclude that loading game levels is mostly cpu intensive and does not rely on storage devices."