Hd to reduce game load time ?

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cereal_killer24

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Hey guys as title says I'm looking at getting a new drive that would help reduce load times in game. Really can't stand the wait between levels as it usually takes me out of the immersion.

So what are my options? Right now I'm looking at the wd 640gb, 74gb raptor, 150gb velociraptor. Storage isn't an issue as long as I have space to put my games on.
 
cereal_killer24 said:
Hey guys as title says I'm looking at getting a new drive that would help reduce load times in game. Really can't stand the wait between levels as it usually takes me out of the immersion.

So what are my options? Right now I'm looking at the wd 640gb, 74gb raptor, 150gb velociraptor. Storage isn't an issue as long as I have space to put my games on.
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You'll at least want the 300GB Velociraptor with a sizeable storage drive for everything else. Game installs are easily clombing upwards of 10GB+ nowadays.
 
It depends on what your usage is. If you play one game until completion, and then uninstall, you can benefit from the higher speeds of a low capacity SSD. If you tend to play a little of a bunch of different games, then a single higher capacity HD or raided HDs will be to your benefit.

For the same price as a 150gig Vraptor, you can get 2 - 640gig WD blue drives and create a Raid-0 set. You can also short-stroke the drives (limit the capacity, and thus the drive arm movement, to decrease latency).

Performance wise, it'll be close, capacity wise, you're getting 1.2TB instead of 150GB.

74 gig raptor is old news. A single 640gig (or just about any current 7200rpm HD) will kill it in transfer speed.
 
640GB drive is no where near the performance of VR in application installs...
Also file copy, (read and write) performance is better than that of 640 or single platter 500GB drives.
I tested this myself to convince myself on what to use.
 
XS Janus said:
640GB drive is no where near the performance of VR in application installs...
Also file copy, (read and write) performance is better than that of 640 or single platter 500GB drives.
I tested this myself to convince myself on what to use.
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Are you replying to OP, or to me? Obviously the VR is faster than a single 7200rpm drive, but it costs more than 2 raid0 7200rpm drives with 10x the capacity, which match or beat its transfer speeds.

Here's a set of graphs (ooh pretty!) stacking a velociraptor against single and raid0 160gig HDDs... the newer perpendicular recording drives will have higher throughput than these, as well.
 
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