how much performance boost am i getting?

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NightLinks

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Hey Everyone!

I was just wondering how much of a perfomance boost i am getting from running raid 0 over a single drive?

Running raid 0 am i running double ram usage?
 
A search will give you lots of threads to form an opinion. You might have missed that this whole first page of this subforum is scattered with RAID threads.
 
^^Without a doubt^^
O.P., you may get faster level load times, and faster boot times..
Video authoring and ripping usually benefit from a faster storage subsystem..
More FPS in games? = Nope....
 
NightLinks said:
Hey Everyone!

I was just wondering how much of a perfomance boost i am getting from running raid 0 over a single drive?

Running raid 0 am i running double ram usage?
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I went Raid0 and didn't really notice much difference. I THINK I feel a little difference loading in CS:S, but other than that...it's really not that big of a difference. I don't regret going with Raid0 because I always backup my important documents no matter what.
 
NightLinks said:
I was just wondering how much of a perfomance boost i am getting from running raid 0 over a single drive?
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I don't know. What are you doing with the raid 0 array?
NightLinks said:
Running raid 0 am i running double ram usage?
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Probably not. But the drivers could allocate twice as many buffers, I guess. If you are using twice as much ram, it's not raid 0's fault, it's the specific implementation of raid 0 that you're using at fault.
 
NightLinks said:
I use raid 0 for gaming mainly playing CS:S, BF2 and 2142.
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In that case the benefits aren't clear-cut. Perhaps it's faster with raid 0, perhaps it isn't. The only way to be sure is to try it both ways and see which way is faster on your machine.
 
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