SATA RAID Performance Comparison
by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 08, 2005 7:49am PSTTech Report today has posted an article comparing Intel's ICH7R and NVIDIA's nForce4 Serial ATA RAID controllers, running them through various tests to see which one is better for RAID.
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True it doesn't help with load times and such much, but it seems to be write speeds that really speeds things up. I have 2 RAID 0 arrays in my PC currently.
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If you are in a single user enviroment and you want to decrease load times and boot times going RAID is not the way to do it. Using one extremely fast drive is the best way not RAID.
Go to www.storagereview.com and look at the leader board. Buy one of the fast drives. The only reason to buy raid is to say "I have raid" and to feel good about your scores in synthetic benchmarks.