dirtbike Posted September 25, 2004 Posted September 25, 2004 Whats the advantage of using SATA RAID drives and is it worth the effort and $$ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted September 25, 2004 Posted September 25, 2004 The advantage is faster HDD access. Whether or not it's worth it would depend on what you do w/your computer. Your games will load faster, large files in Photoshop or video editing software also see a substantial benefit from it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbike Posted September 25, 2004 Posted September 25, 2004 Will it help the cpu when encoding music files - the cpu runs 100% when I convert music Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted September 25, 2004 Posted September 25, 2004 Well, the cpu will do all it can (100%), but with RAID 0 you'll have two drives reading and writing instead of one. If you're encoding/converting a lot it would be a good thing to have-provided the rest of your system is pretty decent too. RAID is a great thing to have, but it would certainly be further down the list than a fast CPU. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
O(V)eGA_l2el) Posted September 26, 2004 Posted September 26, 2004 Also, RAID is not as good as a single drive (from a gaming perspective) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiPolar Posted September 26, 2004 Posted September 26, 2004 I had thought it was the exact opposite. A raid-0 array or raid 0+1, is better for gaming, due to the faster read/write speeds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindDrive Posted September 26, 2004 Posted September 26, 2004 its definately a LOT faster than standard IDE ATA100 or ATA133 since Raid0 is ATA 150 and you WILL notice a HUGE difference in load times over IDE harddrives - so long as the SATA drive is 10000rpms and not just 7200 - the data transfer access times for ATA133 and ATA150 using 7200 rpm harddrives is roughly the same but once the files start moving then SATA will scream the files - what you want is the 10000rpm SATA drives due to the access time - less than half that of ATA133 (IDE ATA133 7200rpm is right around 8ms, where SATA 150 10000rpm is anywhere from 3.2 to 3.8) *give or take* as for if all of this will make your music encode faster prolly not - since the processor does most of the work of this task, the only thing you will really see a benefit by using SATA is moving large numbers of files from one location to another on your drive - though its just GREAT to experiance how much faster everything loads but eventually this will fade and it will be "just normal" unless you have a bunch of slower computers in your house - Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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