Perpendicular Recording vs Raptor Raid 0

[lvlarvin]

Hey wassup fellas, I just ran a test with my new 250gb perpendicular recording hdd vs my Raid 0 150 Raptor X's at installing 3 games.

Seagate Perpendicular Recording

WC3 - 2m:48s
WC3 Frozen Throne - 2m:34s
Company of Heroes - 4m:57s

Raptors Raid 0

WC3 - 2m:56s
WC3 Frozen Throne - 2m:41s
Company of Heroes - 4m:52s

My machine used has the following -

eVga 680i Motherboard
Conroe e6600 @ 3.5Ghz
G.skill x2 1GB - 1000mhz 5-5-5-15 2T
eVga 8800GTX's SLi
Creative Xfi-XtremeMusic
Silverstone 750w PSU

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Is it worth keeping the Raptors? Am I doing the right things by testing it with just installing games or are the Raptors faster at different areas?

Is it my motherboards fault?Also when I got o WD's website to DL -Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows and try to run it. My PC crashed to the blue screen and restarts?

So guys I need some advice right now on selling my raptors or keeping them. All I do on this computer is just surf the web, music, movies, and gaming mostly.

 

[Varun]

Installing a game is not a benchmark for hard drive performance. The game comes compressed and the CPU will have to do a lot of work etc.

RAID 0 brings almost no benefit for the tasks that you perform, and will bring an overheard as the RAID controller likely does a lot of work in software.

You have to do something truly hard drive intensive to test, such as running Hard drive tach or copying a large file to see the performance difference. There is no doubt that the two Raptors would win such a test, but in the real world of what you do they are not being taxed at all.

 

[lvlarvin]

Ah ok, well heres are the benches I did using HD Tach. Are they running normal?

Seagate

 

[SuperNaruto]

1. learn to crop
2. yeah they look right..

 

[lvlarvin]

Really? Someone on hardforum just replied to my thread there and said that the graphs should be more linear? Also why is my computer blue screening when I try to run western digital's lifeguard?