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Quick/Noob RAID0 question

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sinn98

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Hi all,

I read these forums more than I write on them. But I have a question that's eating away at me.
I just bought Age of Conan and the loading times are atrocious, as well as loading new textures.

These are the HDDs I have:
WD2500JS, 8mb cache, 8.9ms seek time, 7200rpm <-- Windows, AoC, etc. installed
WD2500KS, 16mb cache, 8.9ms seek time, 7200rpm <-- Ubuntu installed

....as you can see, no difference in the specs except the cache size....

Right now I am getting ready to reformat and reinstall AoC, but what should I do? I have two choices:

a) Reinstall Windows and AoC on the 16mb cache drive....or
b) Reinstall Windows and AoC on a Raid0 array, utilizing both drives but bottlenecking the 16mb down to 8mb...

So if I do a Raid0 with both my drives....the 16mb cache drive gets bottlenecked to 8mb since the other drive is 8mb, right?

Does that still make it worth it to set up Raid0? Or does keeping the 16mb cache drive on its own provide greater game performance? In other words:

(8mb + 8mb cache) > or = or < (16mb cache)?

I read that Raid doesn't serve too well in games and that buffer sizes are more important, so does that mean option A is best? Also, the game suggests setting a 4 GB static pagefile on a seperate drive, which I suppose is only possible if I go option A, lest I put the pagefile on the system drive.

thanks to anyone with helpful advice...
 
you can raid0 the 2 drives but imo different drives in raid0 together can increase ur chance of the array dropping out and loosing the data.
 
so are you saying that a raid0 in my case would outperform my single 16mb cache drive?
also i have to sacrifice putting my pagefile on a seperate drive if I go that route (important since my ram is low)...

If all you wanted was increased performance for a certain game (age of conan), not minding chances of disk failure, what route would u go? (i.e. without buying new hardware)

thanks
 
you won't see a big improvement, but I'd use the RAID.
Different disks doesn't matter.
 
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