On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:25:58 GMT, "
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Well no practical benefits on DESKTOP PCs not servers obviously . The
article points out artificial benchmarks come out much better but not
real world use.





Heres some posts at websites from RAID users :


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The 10k drives in RAID0 give you amazing performance. If you dislike
loading screens in your games, a RAID0 with two of these drives IS a
good solution.

Personally, I run a RAID0 with two 36GB Raptors at home, and I love
it. Game load times are fairly nonexistant. I've tried going back to a
single drive and had to switch back - I just didn't have the patience
for it any longer

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Overclockers Cafe

Conclusion

The practical value of RAID 1 stands on its own merit. RAID 0
obviously gives us faster access times that did seem to make a
difference in load times for programs which is beneficial for the
multitasking business environment. As far as gaming is concerned,
there is no real statistically significant improvement. Actually, the
results are a dead heat. You don't lose anything by running RAID 0.
Two 80 gb hard drives equal 160 gigs here where in RAID 1 they equal
80 gb of storage. So there you have it; if you want faster speed
where every little bit helps, run RAID 0. While it won't really help
you get more frames per second it will speed along other apps making
life more pleasant between games.


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SATA and Raid 0
My two penn'orth, then:

1. Correct. My IDE Raid 0 array is significantly and noticably faster
than my old single drive setup, especially when installing programs
and loading games levels (to use two data-transfer intensive
operations as examples). I would imagine that the difference with a
SATA Raid 0 array would be comparably significant.


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