We often stay after hours in the office and play games together. Since our main app is CAD, every box is a great gaming box (and no ... 2D / 3D CAD does not benefit from workstation cards, they are actually slower). Every box has an SSD + SSHD with a backup OS on the SSHD also. You might see a difference if you sit there with a stopwatch but having done blind tests when we swith the boot drive from SSD to SSHD without telling anyone, nobody notices.
Here's a post from about 10 years ago ... nothing has changed. Havn't checked to see if all links are still viable ... been 10 years and all.
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SR Gaming DriveMark 2002 Single Drive = 519 IO/sec RAID 0 = 529 IO/sec
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Western Digital's Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?
"If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer. The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop."
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".....we did not see an increase in FPS through its use. Load times for levels and games was significantly reduced utilizing the Raid controller and array. As we stated we do not expect that the majority of gamers are willing to purchase greater than 4 drives and a controller for this kind of setup. While onboard Raid is an option available to many users you should be aware that using onboard Raid will mean the consumption of CPU time for this task and thus a reduction in performance that may actually lead to worse FPS. An add-on controller will always be the best option until they integrate discreet Raid controllers with their own memory into consumer level motherboards."
Clicky, check out the bar graph towards the bottom of Eugene's post. SR will be posting a pretty comprehensive article on RAID, hopefully soon. The graph is a selection from the results obtained for that forthcoming article. Even running _four_ WD740GDs in RAID-0 is not enough to match the...
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However, many have tried to justify/overlook those shortcomings by simply saying "It's faster." Anyone who does this is wrong, wasting their money, and buying into hype. Nothing more.
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The real-world performance benefits possible in a single-user PC situation is not a given for most people, because the benefits rely on multiple independent, simultaneous requests. One person running most desktop applications may not see a big payback in performance because they are not written to do asynchronous I/O to disks. Understanding this can help avoid disappointment.
What about performance? This, we suspect, is the primary reason why so many users doggedly pursue the RAID 0 "holy grail." This inevitably leads to dissapointment by those that notice little or no performance gain.....As stated above, first person shooters rarely benefit from RAID 0.__ Frame rates will almost certainly not improve, as they are determined by your video card and processor above all else. In fact, theoretically your FPS frame rate may decrease, since many low-cost RAID controllers (anything made by Highpoint at the tiem of this writing, and most cards from Promise) implement RAID in software, so the process of splitting and combining data across your drives is done by your CPU, which could better be utilized by your game. That said, the CPU overhead of RAID0 is minimal on high-performance processors.
Even the HD manufacturers limit RAID's advantages to very specific applications and non of them involves gaming:
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If load times bother you ..... an investment in SSDs is the solution. I find that the PC is always ready for me before I am ready for it. After launching the game, I'm loading web pages, launching discord, plugging on my headphone dongle, unplugging the charging cord, putting on headphones other game aids on my 2nd screen and the game is sitting there waiting before Im ready. And of course, I take advantage of the break between work and play, by taki ng a bio, getting a snack or sammie or whatever.
