raid0 performance and Wow question

[burningforce]

I am thinking of buying another western digital 1tb hard drive to raid with my existing one. But I was wondering if that money would be better spent on another wow subscription. I currently 2-box and looking to do something rather then get mass amounts of gold from doing dailies.

So the question is, would a 2 hard drive raid0 improve "random access reads" or would it remain the same as if I had 1 hard drive? If I am not mistaken Wow uses random access hard drive reads more then regular hard drive reading for peformance.

thanks

[burningforce]

bah, i just decided to get another account

damn multiboxing, so addictive

[LindlineOLD]

Are you acrually having performance issues?

[necrimus]

It does drastically improve your read speeds. My setup is this, now:

1 320GB 16MB cache drive with my OS
2 150GB 10k raptor drives in a RAID0

Once I moved to this most of my troubles went away. I say most because I had lag in WG tonight :/ I don't know what it was though.

[burningforce]

@lindline
Not really, sometimes I get a hiccup here and there. just sometimes when loading instances/zones it takes awhile to load them, esepcially dalaran.

I just figured that raid0 usually increases read/write/burst with no fault tolerence. but was not sure if it will increase "random" disk reads(not sure if they are different/same as regular disk reads). I am sure I read on tom's hardware that everything is almost doubled(read/write) but random disk read/writes remained virtually unchanged.

here is my system if you were wondering

q6600 2.4ghz (oc'ed to 3.0)
8GB of gskill 1066 memory (set up timings and changed a few things to have a stable oc in bios)
geforce 260 core 216
gigabyte ep45-ud3r motherboard
corsair 620hx power supply
proper case cooling(fans, heatsink fan,etc)
thats all I can think of at the top of my head

@necrimus
do you have wow on the raided raptors? I bet they are super fast
also I can not afford to spring for some raptors

thanks for the replies

[LindlineOLD]

Originally Posted by necrimus

It does drastically improve your read speeds. My setup is this, now:

1 320GB 16MB cache drive with my OS
2 150GB 10k raptor drives in a RAID0

Once I moved to this most of my troubles went away. I say most because I had lag in WG tonight :/ I don't know what it was though.

Probably Wintergrasp

[pinki104]

It won't I'm prove game performance but does help when switching windows and boot up times. I chaned from a crappy wd 500gb to a 64gb crucial SSD and I notice a diff in switching from 1 thing to another

[necrimus]

Just get 2 $35 drives and set them up in a RAID0. Just make sure Wow and Windows aren't on the same drive.

[muffins2all]

For the love of everything, stay away from raid 0. If one item is corrupted, then both hard drives are toast. I lost 750GB of data this way.

[necrimus]

Originally Posted by muffins2all

For the love of everything, stay away from raid 0. If one item is corrupted, then both hard drives are toast. I lost 750GB of data this way.

The point is, all you have on the drive is WoW. That's why I used 2 80GB drives for my first array, cheap (hence the "I" in RAID) and only 160GB of space. The only point of RAID0 is speed. It is a good idea to point out that there is no redundancy,for those who don't know.

Synctoy is in my scheduler and my WTF, Interface and Screenshots are backed up every night so I don't worry about my array failing.