HDD Bottleneck Possible Solution?

[maseorama]

Hello,
Would Gigabyte's turbo XHD utility be a viable solution for my HDD bottleneck? ( It requires two identical HDDs and the latest bios update in order to run the utility. )

 

[brandonnys]

It might if you do it right. The XHD utility lets you RAID 0 (STRIPE) or RAID 1 (MIRROR) your drives. RAID 0 Will give you a bit better performance, but if one of those drives dies, you will have to reformat the second one (I.E. no redundancy). RAID 1 will mirror the first drive to the second drive, so you'll have an exact copy in the event of a crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_levels

If you're having a bottleneck at the HDD, have you considered running an SSD or a faster HDD like a VelociRaptor 10k?

 

[maseorama]

It might if you do it right. The XHD utility lets you RAID 0 (STRIPE) or RAID 1 (MIRROR) your drives. RAID 0 Will give you a bit better performance, but if one of those drives dies, you will have to reformat the second one (I.E. no redundancy). RAID 1 will mirror the first drive to the second drive, so you'll have an exact copy in the event of a crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_levels

If you're having a bottleneck at the HDD, have you considered running an SSD or a faster HDD like a VelociRaptor 10k?

I was looking at running a SSD but the price just isn't there in terms of storage capacity. I will have to look into the VelociRaptor I have heard of it but never checked it out. Let me ask you something. How important is the HDD's cache? Is there a large difference between 16 mb, 32 mb and 64 mb?