anthonyd Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Hi all,Just was thinking about striping my hard drive. I have two drives (different sizes and speeds though) with Windows XP Home. Would I see any benefit by striping? Also, would it be better to get two drives of the same size and speed?Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Yes it is the best if you could get the hard drive same RPM speed, but it doesn't have to be the same size. If you have one hard drive with 5400 RPM and one with 4800 RPM, and if you have money, I recommend you to take off 4800 RPM for better performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zox Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 You will get performance improvment with anything that is I/O disk intensive, such as working with large images, saving large files and reading them, copy on fly, etc..If you are doing some heavy video crunching it can be very helpfull but again you are limited with CPU speed.If you are starting some game, map loading at the begining will be **** of a lot faster, but game itself will be the same since once the map is loaded from disk to memory, it's all there pretty much so your disk usage will be lower, therefore no benefit after ;)It is also better to have same disks in stripe because if you have two different ones (one slow and one fast), your faster drive will have to wait more for slower so basicaly your both drives will perform as if you have two slower drives striped. Also if you have different drive sizes, you will be able to stripe only the same size from both disks, e.g.1-disk 20 Mb2nd-40 MbYour stripe will use your entire 1st disk and just half of the second, you are getting 40Mb stripe size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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