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OK does RAID make a difference or not for non-servers?
Sure obviously in some benchmarks it does.
When it first really getting popular because of IDE raid boards there were several articles saying it didnt make much difference for the avg person. Then I saw some sites pushing it so I assumed maybe with SATA and newer HDs it made a difference in everyday use. I asked a while back and people posted it probably doesnt. Yet lots of people seemed to be doing it now. So I did a search and a recent thing at some overclockers website says nope , not much difference - at least in gaming. What everyone generally says is they notice much faster loading of programs. That seems to imply noticeably faster HD access which should impact almost everything. However they say in everyday use it doesnt make much difference and with games too. I cant find any tests though with video and editing graphics. One guy at Tweakers website says he records video and sound on his PC and it has made a big difference but hes I think capturing video and sound probably at some really high res. Ive tried capturing video uncompressed - huge amounts of data and it worked fine without RAID. http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/RAID/pg_2.htm Also cooling. Thermalright and others coolers and heatsinks are recommended by many but there are posts where people claim they replaced their old cooler with a thermalright heatsink and there was around a 2 degree change , fairly small. Anyone get a dramatic difference when switching to one of the better coolers? Im thinking about it since I found Cooler Guys will ship by USPS if requested at your own risk since FEDEX etc have ridiculously high rates to Hawaii - around $25 minimum even for a screw or tiny fan. |
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It makes a huge difference, basically doubling your hdd performance, but it only make a difference while your computer is accessing
your hdd. If you're in the middle of a game it most likely won't be accessing your hdd and you will notice zero difference. I had raid on an amd 1.4 a while ago and it brought the speed of the hdd up from 35 to about 65 MB/sec. With today's drives the speed would probably be much better. But, you have to check what the performance of a drive twice its size would be, if you put in a pair of 120gb drives, will a single 240gb drive be quicker? I think bigger drives might be quicker because the bits of information are smaller and/or they read off more platters at once but I have not confirmed this. -- Michael Culley " wrote in message ... Sure obviously in some benchmarks it does. When it first really getting popular because of IDE raid boards there were several articles saying it didnt make much difference for the avg person. Then I saw some sites pushing it so I assumed maybe with SATA and newer HDs it made a difference in everyday use. I asked a while back and people posted it probably doesnt. Yet lots of people seemed to be doing it now. So I did a search and a recent thing at some overclockers website says nope , not much difference - at least in gaming. What everyone generally says is they notice much faster loading of programs. That seems to imply noticeably faster HD access which should impact almost everything. However they say in everyday use it doesnt make much difference and with games too. I cant find any tests though with video and editing graphics. One guy at Tweakers website says he records video and sound on his PC and it has made a big difference but hes I think capturing video and sound probably at some really high res. Ive tried capturing video uncompressed - huge amounts of data and it worked fine without RAID. http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/RAID/pg_2.htm Also cooling. Thermalright and others coolers and heatsinks are recommended by many but there are posts where people claim they replaced their old cooler with a thermalright heatsink and there was around a 2 degree change , fairly small. Anyone get a dramatic difference when switching to one of the better coolers? Im thinking about it since I found Cooler Guys will ship by USPS if requested at your own risk since FEDEX etc have ridiculously high rates to Hawaii - around $25 minimum even for a screw or tiny fan. |
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The other thing to consider is the price of the drives. A pair of 120GB drives and a raid controller may be the same cost as a 350gb
drive. -- Michael Culley "Michael Culley" wrote in message ... It makes a huge difference, basically doubling your hdd performance, but it only make a difference while your computer is accessing your hdd. If you're in the middle of a game it most likely won't be accessing your hdd and you will notice zero difference. I had raid on an amd 1.4 a while ago and it brought the speed of the hdd up from 35 to about 65 MB/sec. With today's drives the speed would probably be much better. But, you have to check what the performance of a drive twice its size would be, if you put in a pair of 120gb drives, will a single 240gb drive be quicker? I think bigger drives might be quicker because the bits of information are smaller and/or they read off more platters at once but I have not confirmed this. -- Michael Culley " wrote in message ... Sure obviously in some benchmarks it does. When it first really getting popular because of IDE raid boards there were several articles saying it didnt make much difference for the avg person. Then I saw some sites pushing it so I assumed maybe with SATA and newer HDs it made a difference in everyday use. I asked a while back and people posted it probably doesnt. Yet lots of people seemed to be doing it now. So I did a search and a recent thing at some overclockers website says nope , not much difference - at least in gaming. What everyone generally says is they notice much faster loading of programs. That seems to imply noticeably faster HD access which should impact almost everything. However they say in everyday use it doesnt make much difference and with games too. I cant find any tests though with video and editing graphics. One guy at Tweakers website says he records video and sound on his PC and it has made a big difference but hes I think capturing video and sound probably at some really high res. Ive tried capturing video uncompressed - huge amounts of data and it worked fine without RAID. http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/RAID/pg_2.htm Also cooling. Thermalright and others coolers and heatsinks are recommended by many but there are posts where people claim they replaced their old cooler with a thermalright heatsink and there was around a 2 degree change , fairly small. Anyone get a dramatic difference when switching to one of the better coolers? Im thinking about it since I found Cooler Guys will ship by USPS if requested at your own risk since FEDEX etc have ridiculously high rates to Hawaii - around $25 minimum even for a screw or tiny fan. |
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RAID can make a hugh difference in any system. but you must realize
that caapturing video isnt going to highlight the advantages of a RAID configuration. In a RAID 0 config you can boost your hard drive performance by 50-75% (in theory you should double your speed but then ye be dreaming) But the most likely way you will actually see a difference is when opeening large files or using a disk intensive graaphic programs. some 3D modeling programs use memory mapped files for very large files. When the file size can be upwards of 100-150 MB then you will quickly notice the increased speed. ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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"DaveinOlyWa" wrote in message ...
In a RAID 0 config you can boost your hard drive performance by 50-75% (in theory you should double your speed but then ye be dreaming) But Mine showed an increase from 35 meg to 65. I'm not sure if there was a problem with the program I used to test it but the results showed better than 75% improvement. -- Michael Culley |
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