What exactly is RAID?

Business Winstone is a suite of several office productivity programs that derives a score from how quickly a system handles each of these.  Content Creation is similar but focuses more on media type productivity programs.  Our two productivity benchmarks show a small but yet insignificant lead to RAID 0.

For the remaining gaming benchmarks we are just going to post the graphs and let you see for yourself.

Conclusion

The practical value of RAID 1 stands on its own merit.  RAID 0 obviously gives us faster access times that did seem to make a difference in load times for programs which is beneficial for the multitasking business environment.  As far as gaming is concerned, there is no real statistically significant improvement.  Actually, the results are a dead heat.  You don't lose anything by running RAID 0.  Two 80 gb hard drives equal 160 gigs here where in RAID 1 they equal 80 gb of storage.  So there you have it; if you want faster speed where every little bit helps, run RAID 0.  While it won't really help you get more frames per second it will speed along other apps making life more pleasant between games.

BACK                    HOME