destro75 opened this issue on Jun 30, 2005 ยท 30 posts
svdl posted Sat, 02 July 2005 at 12:26 PM
RAID0 (almost) doubles transfer rates when reading or writing big files. RAID0 does not improve access times, so many small reads will not be accelerated over a single drive solution. I've done some tests a couple of months back, using a machine containing two WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drives and two Hitachi Deskstars 7200 RPM drives. Results: WD Raptors in Raid0, XP, Poser and swap on Raid0 array versus WD Raptors separate, XP on Disk0, Swap and Poser on Disk1: zilch. Loading, saving, rendering, the speed differences were negligible and fell within the margin of error. The 7200 RPM drives are configured as a RAID0 array. Haven't tried yet to run Poser from those drives yet.
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