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.jackson · 22-08-2005, 09:34

I have looked into raid when getting a new hard drive. I am a gamer so I want fast loads and no HDD lag in game.

I researched it and found that you get better performance from getting a quick primary drive, I got a Maxtor MaxLine III 16MB cache 300GB SATA drive, and used my old 80GB barracuda for windows page file.

You dont get much performance from RAID 0 unless you move large files around all the time. I wouldnt bother with RAID. I would get a 16MB cache drive, because they are as fast as hell! Also in benchmarks my maxline beats the raptor's in some cases.

22-08-2005, 09:34	#8
.jackson Inactive Join Date: Nov 2004 Age: 38 Posts: 75	Re: New Hard Drive Recommendations? I have looked into raid when getting a new hard drive. I am a gamer so I want fast loads and no HDD lag in game. I researched it and found that you get better performance from getting a quick primary drive, I got a Maxtor MaxLine III 16MB cache 300GB SATA drive, and used my old 80GB barracuda for windows page file. You dont get much performance from RAID 0 unless you move large files around all the time. I wouldnt bother with RAID. I would get a 16MB cache drive, because they are as fast as hell! Also in benchmarks my maxline beats the raptor's in some cases.