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does two drives faster than one??

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D-Bang

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i'm planning to buy a new pc, i'm not sure if i should invest more money and buy two drives or go for one (a big one).

my question is that, if i'm buying two hard drives.. (not RAID setup)

one for: OS + Apps maybe eMule..

and the second one for: Games only..

will this setup work faster than putting it all on one single drive?
and if so, how much faster? does it worth the extra cash?
 
You have no real reason NOT to RAID0 it and get the benefit of it appearing as one drive, and the extra speed.

I mean, if you really need to, you could do a software partition...
 
Depends on how you access the drives. If you like to have stuff like IM clients, bit torrents, file downloads, etc running in the background while you game, having your OS and apps separate from your games drive makes sense. If the only purpose of your boot drive is to show yo ua list of games to play, you can probably get by with one drive and take a unnoticable to non-existant performance hit.

As for RAID-0, it will make it one volume, and get you soem extra synthetic transfer performance - but it will also reduce reliability, increase the complexity of your system, complicate disaster recovery, and make the data on your system vulnerable to a myriad of hazards that wouldn't affect data stored on two independent drives.
 
A) They lead with HDTach :rolleyes:

B) They talk about how significant drivers and controllers are, yet make no mention of what drivers they used :rolleyes:

C) There file copy tests only compared SLED to RAID-0, they didn't test the RAID array against two independent drives

D)
Here you see the unchanged Random Access time between the two setups
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Synthetic seek time/random access tests only seek to one sector at a time, (thusly only testing oen drive at a time and defeatign the whole purpose of having a RAID-0 array) while real world application usage will access data on both drives simultaneously and be impacted by increased rotational latency when not only one but two spindles must come around to complete a typical request.

E) They make absolutely no mention of RAID's pitfalls.
 
Parker89 said:
You have no real reason NOT to RAID0 it and get the benefit of it appearing as one drive, and the extra speed.
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Wow, how 2005-ish of you. Might want to do some reading about RAID0.
 
The most telling self condemnation in that article is that he noticed no improvement going from a 7200RPM drive to a single Raptor, an assertion that flies in the face of the vast majority of user experiences reported by users here and elsewhere.
 
D-Bang said:
i'm planning to buy a new pc, i'm not sure if i should invest more money and buy two drives or go for one (a big one).

my question is that, if i'm buying two hard drives.. (not RAID setup)

one for: OS + Apps maybe eMule..

and the second one for: Games only..

will this setup work faster than putting it all on one single drive?
and if so, how much faster? does it worth the extra cash?
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your setup sounds pretty smart to me. I'd go with that.
 
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