But HDD latencies are there regardless of whether you use a single or multiple HDDs, yet with multiple HDDs you increase the maximum available bandwidth (100 MBy/Sec vs. 300 MBy/Sec for 3 drives) so you don't get the blurries because your scenery is not getting loaded fast enough. The case for SSDs is similar, except of course SSDs have no latency.Cheers,- jahman.

That would be true in a raid set like mine on a professional controller card. The CPU cycles induced in searching for data would be wipe out any perceived bandwidth advantage. If you think it is better have at it, I wouldn't do it in million-years. If your theory were sound everybody would be pumping single drives down and splitting every program they could across those drives, and I ain't seeing that happening. There is no duplication of bandwidth as there is only one data bus.

I thing we'll just have to disagree here: Searching for data takes pretty much the same time on multiple drives as on a single drive as the search is dependent on the number of files, regardless of whether they sit on one HDD or multiple HDDs. Regarding the data bus, the 100 MBy/Sec a 7,200 rpm HDD like the WD Caviar Black can put out steady-state (at best) is way below SATA2 (300 MBy/Sec, or 3x a single HDD) and SATA3 (600 MBy/Sec, or 6x a single HDD), which is exactly the reason why a multiple HDD setup will outperform a single HDD setup any day.Cheers,- jahman.