Raid or not to raid

[Creepingdeath82]

Hi guys new to the forum,

I want to get a new HD but cant decide to go for the 2 raptors in raid 0 mode or the WD1500ADFD raptor which is 150gig.

Will there be much peformance games wise

thanks

 

[geofelt]

There is generally no real world(vs. synthetic transfer rate benchmarks) performance advantage to raid of any kind.
Go to www.storagereview.com for a good tutorial on raid,
and some application benchmarks. There are some specific applications that will benefit, but
gaming is not one of them. Even if you have an application which reads one input file sequentially, and writes
it out, you will perform about as well by putting the input on one drive, and the output on the other.

 

[Creepingdeath82]

So would it be best just to go for the WD1500ADFD raptor which is 150gig

 

[Creepingdeath82]

So is it just the game loading times not fps they increase. By the way that looks really cool

 

[geofelt]

@soldier37, Is there any way to tell how much of the gain you saw was from raid-0 vs. the change to the raptors? The 150gb raptors are, by themselves much faster than 7200rpm drives.