raid???

[Sathsayin]

I was just curious what any of you guys thought. I had an sempron 64(socket754 1.6 oc to 2.4). with 512 mb of ddr 433 cas latency 2.2.2.5 gold gx OCZ and 4 2 80gb hitatchi's striped. the overall speed to boot. was a tad bit faster then my dualcore with a single cavier blue with 4gb of 800mhz ddr 2. on loading apps once the computer was booted. I still use the same software and same updates.

I was wondering do any of you guys notice that when you raid two drives it makes more then the boot and app time faster. it seems like even though i got 3.25 (xp) gigs of ram. Still seems like the old machine was faster. fresh installs. on both with all the updates. im thinking that the ram just can't get fed fast enough. Has anybody else had an old 20gb ide then went to dual sata ncq drives on thier system. and notice a huge speed increase. Im thinking at this point that raiding my drives would make my compter app's and boot time faster then upgradeing the proccesor . reason being this dual core celeron anialtes the hell out of my old sempron 64. yet the old system wiht less ram was more snappier not neccesserly faster.

any thoughts?

 

[engiNURD]

RAID1 does nothing for performance.

RAID0 is good for fast sequential writes (video encoding/transcoding, archiving, etc). It helps boot and app load times, but not by much with mechanical disks.

For the best performance boost, get some OCZ Vertex drives and put them in RAID0.

The perceived performance boost depends on what you're coming from. Run some HDTune benchmarks on your current drives.