RAID 1 - what improvement?

[detrunks]

Just a quick question on RAID 1. Will it improve loading times? For example, if it currently takes me a minute to load BFME2, will RAID 1 cut it down to 30 seconds?
Any responses welcome!

 

[JMMD]

RAID 1 is mirroring. That will not speed anything up. RAID 0 *can* help to speed things up but there's no fault tolerance.

 

[maxbb1]

acutlaly, yes you will find SOME increase in speed, however it won't be near as good as raid 0... (you'll still be able to notice though) (in theory)

 

[LNCPapa]

As far as I've always known that SOME increase you might see would be a negative value.

 

[swker98]

if you have the $$ you COULD go with raid 0,1 with 4hdd's 2 mirroring 2 stripping (0)

 

[Nodsu]

RAID1 will give you the same performance increase for reads as RAID0 so yes, load times should improve. Writes will be just as slow as with a single drive.

This is assuming real RAID. Nothing is certain when you have fakeraid that depend on your OS, CPU and how much the driver writers were behind schedule.

 

[F1N3ST]

Get a 10 or 15k RPM HD and load times will be super fast.