POLL: RAID 0 Problems

[ElTorrente]

Originally posted by: Some1ne

...If you are willing to spend the money on good equipment. My setup is absolutely nuts doing anything that involves disk access. Loading levels in BF2, for instance, is hilarious. I am in game sooooo long all by myself every single time a map changes, that I can cap a flag before the second guy makes it in-game - then slooooowly the other 63 people start filtering in.

While I'm sure your RAID is helping here, this also has a lot to do with the fact that you also have a top of the line CPU (overclocked no less), more RAM than most (also overclocked), and what is in general a very top of the line system. You would still be hitting the level first even if you had BF2 installed on a plain drive, because very few people have systems that are even remotely comparable to yours. I do agree that RAID adds at least some performance, in gaming and in everything else that is heavily reliant on disk accesses, but loading a level in a game is also very CPU and memory intensive, and your performance can't be entirely attributed to the RAID array.

I agree with you on all of those things.

The fact is though, that on a typical 64 person server, night in and night out, there is gonna be at least a few people that will have faster processers and ram than me. They may even have a Raid0 setup with a couple disks. Why doesn't anyone, EVER, beat me into a level? Because of my Raid0, in addition to a very powerful machine.

I remember a few nights ago I was shocked because some guy got into the game after a level change about 5 seconds after me - and I thought it was amazing.

You're right about the levels being cpu intensive, though. It certainly helps to have my x2 running so fast.

 

[eno]

I know this is late but I have been reading old posts because of my Raid Image restoring issues and just thought I would note my opinion.

Not sure how people say basic Raid 0 doesn't help in games. Like others have said BF2 loads much faster even with 2 Raptor 36gbs drives running onboard NF3 chipset. I get into BF2 levels usually much sooner then anyone else. That gaming feature alone was worth the money for me. I of course don't leave important data on them, I usually have some basic IDE storage drive holding images and other data while my extra basic XP Pro tower acts like a File/Print server. Raid 0 seems much faster then standard drives to me.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Any poroblems I have encountered were caused by me and not the raid0 set up!!

 

[imported_HorseFly]

I had heard the risky useing raid0 but it does help game alot for me it does, yea got 2 36gb raptor in raid0 and dont have a storage drive.Can I just add another raptor without reinstall whole thing so i can save data ? Is getting scary when people start talking about raid0 dieing and losing all data So that why I'm asking How and what I need to do before I install HD..thank:Q