-=raska=- wrote:
As usually, the op suggest two options and wants a reply about one of those 2 answers, and he get people who say :"No wai you should be better with this 1 millions bucks solution!!!"
Everyone knows that 2 raptor in raid 0 would kick ass, but I dont think that if he was ready to pay for such a system, he would post here.
The thread is about 7200 rpm raid 0 or a single raptor so :
For the loading of large files, you should be better with raid 0. As you posted on a bf2 forum, I believe you will want to use your hard drives to load bf2 maps a bit faster, and I think that raid 0 should be better. However, if you plan to load lots of small files or you plan on forcing your hard drive to make quick little reads, you should be better with a raptor, because it has a better "reaction time" (I dont know the proper expression for this but I think you understand).
So globally, I'd think that a Raid 0 solution is better. Way cheaper than a Raptor and you get lot of l33t space.
That's pretty much exactly right.
RAID0 be only be of benefit when working with large contiguous files - but when it is doing that, it's a lot faster.
I've tried Raptors, I've tried 7200rpm drives in RAID0, I find RAID to be the better choice. Whatever you do, don't get 36GB Raptors - they can be pretty dodgy.