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Originally posted by Ilander:
One 10000 RPM drive outperforms an array that only has to write a fraction of the information per disc? I'd have to look that one up, but I was under the impression it was faster...'course, I have a RAID 5 array that seems incredibly fast to me...load times are nearly non-existent things...unless loading something genuinely huge, like Morrowind with expansions or Oblivion...and I seldom see in-game load screens anymore...and I figure that's the most bandwidth my HDDs will ever have to worry about.
My main point, though, is that for a near-trivial adjustment to load times, a person could potentially triple their storage...
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Do you have a dedicated RAID controller for your RAID 5?
See, performance via RAID 0 is neglible, very very neglible. In tests I've seen in CustomPC (a magazine I read) there was basically no difference between RAID 0 and no RAID, and the Raptor can load faster, as of faster spinning times. There's not all that much in it of course. However RAID 5 is different.