Raid 0 config

Hello all,

I have a 6860 and was considering ordering a pair of WD scorpio black 320GB 7200 rpm drives (assuming they're compatible). I was wondering if there would be a decent performance gain by upgrading to the higher rpm and going to raid 0?

Also when running raid 0 i understand files are shared between the two drives, does this mean capacity would be 640 or 320 GB (unformatted of course)?

Thank You all for sharing your wisdom!

 

your capacity would be 640 before formatting, 598.2 GB afterwards. there is a decent performance gain using raid 0 over 2 regular drives. i have 2 5400 rpm drives in raid 0 and i regularly boot into windows in under 50 seconds, along with faster file transfers to my external drive (average transfer speed is 110MB/s) you should also see slightly faster loading times while gaming.

 

thank you for your reply. so faster loading times, but any performance gains like fps or anything to that effect?

 

FPS usually depends on the graphics card. the only FPS gain i saw compared to stock was when i upgraded the cpu or overclock the gpu. on enthusiast in crysis warhead with everything maxed except for AA and antistropic filtering, i was getting 15-20 FPS average on the ice levels without using a custom config file.

on need for speed undercover i get around 30-35 fps average with everything maxed, and cod4 (last time i played it at least, multiple driver changes since then) was around 60-70 fps average, no AA, trillinear filtering

 

cool thanks for the info, prob do this upgrade with christmas $ then, We have almost same system, except your sweet ram... btw nice mouse I want a g9 real bad

thanks again

 

i do agree that the G9 is a nice mouse, you should look into the new grips they have for the mouse. the ram probably has the same timing as yours, so it doesnt do much good. its just that i had a 4gb set of ram in my old laptop that i wanted to keep since i bought it and has a lifetime warranty.