Hi fellow simmers,Now I have two Samsung 7200 S-ATA2 drives in Raid 0 configuration and I am wondering is it worth to collect two Raptors in Raid 0 to speed up loading textures in FSX.Happy landings...

>Hi fellow simmers,>>Now I have two Samsung 7200 S-ATA2 drives in Raid 0>configuration and I am wondering is it worth to collect two>Raptors in Raid 0 to speed up loading textures in FSX.>>Happy landings...You are not really going to notice a performance increase running in RAID 0 in FSX. You will actually get better performance running a Raptor as a single disk.RAID 0 is great for large files (>4GB, excellent for video editing) and synthetic benchmarks. Has no effect on gaming other than if the RAID array manages to get corrupted you have to start all over.

I second what sargeski said. When I moved FSX to the Raptor, I did a lot of research into RAID0 Raptors vs. single Raptor and FS. Let me save you the research time: I ended up going with single Raptor.If you have two Raptors, sounds like you're all set up to install the OS on one Raptor, and FSX on the other! Mega fast!RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Ok Guys,Thanks for the input...I will go for 2x single Raptor.Happy landings

>I second what sargeski said. When I moved FSX to the Raptor,>I did a lot of research into RAID0 Raptors vs. single Raptor>and FS. >>Let me save you the research time: I ended up going with>single Raptor.>Two questions come to mind - 1) A RAID 0 may not provide an improvement BUT is it slower than a single Raptor?2) If I should decide to dump my RAID 0, would I be able to just ghost the array and then copy it to a single drive?Thanx,VicQ6600 G0 CPU 2.4 o/c 3.6Evga 680i A1 with P30 BIOS 2G XP2-8500 DDR2 1066FSB Mushkin 996535 RAM 5-5-4-12-2T320G 7200 HD partitioned for XP/Vista/Programs 2 - 74G Raptors in RAID0 500G 7200 HD for backup SATA DVD burner Evga 8800GTS 640 PCIx Kandalf LCS case w/ built in liquid cooling 850W Thermaltake power supplyVisit the Virtual Pilot's Centerwww.flightadventures.comhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-supporter-sigbanner.jpgRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/

Vic,Yes it can be slower than a single raptor especially if your using a RAID controller built into your mobo. They are not as robust as stand alone controller nor do they have the amount of cache as a stand alone controller.I can tell you from experience as my other PC has a RAID 0 setup with Raptors, that you will experience little to no difference running the Raptors with FSX in RAID 0 or stand alone. However, your pocket book will be much better off. ;)At present do you have your OS installed on one drive and FSX on another?? If not just a suggestion to do so if you can, it does make a noticeable difference.There should be no issue of you making an image of your exsisting RAID 0 array and putting it on a single disk provided the content on your RAID 0 array does not exceed the size of your Raptor.I've made images of my arrays and transferred the contents to single disks with no issues.

Do the comments about RAID0 apply to non-Raptor too? I have two RAID0 caviars, and I am thinking now of going back to individual disks.

Sargeski - Yes, I have XP/Vista on a different drive from the RAID 0, they are in different partitions. FSX is on the RAID array.I originally set it up so that both OS pointed to the FSX drive so I only had to do one copy of FSX. Worked fine until Acdceleration - whichever OS I install ACceleration under makes the other OS 'copy' of FSX unactivated so I can only run in demo mode.I figure if I really want to test it I will probably break the RAID and install a copy of FSX/Accel on each of the two 74G Raptors.Have to go through the horrors of multiple activations again though.Haven'y made up my mind yet. SO far, for me, FSX/Accel under Vista is less than thrilling, especially compared to the XP performance. In fairness though, I haven't tweaked the Vista install as much as XP.I may play around a bit and if I can get the Vista install to perform almost as good as XP, I'll break the RAID and run two copies for a bit.It seems like I'll have to run Vista eventually if I want whatever FS11 will bring to the table.VicQ6600 G0 CPU 2.4 o/c 3.6Evga 680i A1 with P30 BIOS 2G XP2-8500 DDR2 1066FSB Mushkin 996535 RAM 5-5-4-12-2T320G 7200 HD partitioned for XP/Vista/Programs 2 - 74G Raptors in RAID0 500G 7200 HD for backup SATA DVD burner Evga 8800GTS 640 PCIx Kandalf LCS case w/ built in liquid cooling 850W Thermaltake power supplyVisit the Virtual Pilot's Centerwww.flightadventures.comhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-supporter-sigbanner.jpgRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/