vega27 Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 BAM! http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2337&p=1 "DFI set out to create the absolute best nForce4 boards that an enthusiast could find on the market. After spending several weeks with engineering samples and now the final retail boards, we believe that DFI has succeeded in their goal." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
psy^ Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 i straitup love raid and my raptors! Man, 1x 74GB Raptor is faster than 2x 36GB raptors in Raid 0 :shake: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyA Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 seek time for a 36.6 gig raptor is 5.2 ms, cut that in half and your looking at 2.6 ms wd 76 giger is a 4.5 ms seek time. even in raid its 2.3 which is only .4 difference. or are they benchmarking way over/under there specs? -Andy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 seek time for a 36.6 gig raptor is 5.2 ms, cut that in half and your looking at 2.6 ms wd 76 giger is a 4.5 ms seek time. even in raid its 2.3 which is only .4 difference. or are they benchmarking way over/under there specs? -Andy you cant cut the seek times in half just by running a RAID-0 array...it doesnt work like that. Seek times will still be the same for a drive no matter what configuration it is in. seek times on my RAID-0 raptors is about 8.3ms seek times on my single raptor is about 8.3ms Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyA Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 yeah???? but your cutting it in half cuase each file is split and half and loaded on each one sooo each may spec at a certain time to load a 3 meg file but when both half to load a 1.5 meg file the time is cut in half? thats what i was under the impression of though i could be wrong. -Andy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 here ya go...read this...raid0 review "Conclusion The practical value of RAID 1 stands on its own merit. RAID 0 obviously gives us faster access times that did seem to make a difference in load times for programs which is beneficial for the multitasking business environment. As far as gaming is concerned, there is no real statistically significant improvement. Actually, the results are a dead heat. You don't lose anything by running RAID 0. Two 80 gb hard drives equal 160 gigs here where in RAID 1 they equal 80 gb of storage. So there you have it; if you want faster speed where every little bit helps, run RAID 0. While it won't really help you get more frames per second it will speed along other apps making life more pleasant between games." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyA Posted February 4, 2005 Posted February 4, 2005 i dont have any benchmarks or anything but i 100% agree that it was nuts faster loading programs installing things but your right i never seen a big gain in my load times, but im almost always the first one to load a map in CS 1.6 ~ i love raid its one of the biggest performance gains i have seen that you notice, (ive never made any signifant jumps i build 1 computer a year for myself. -Andy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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