Author: K. Burcham
Date: 16:55:05 04/22/02
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On April 22, 2002 at 16:53:52, Roy Eassa wrote: > >http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PCIATA100&sourceid=00394485245456307577 > >Does striping speed up the hard disk enough to be worth the trouble? (I assume you know there is not actually a RPM increase). Roy, i tried the Promise raid card with two 20 gig seagate 7200 ide drives. this would be a raid 0 stripe setup, if i remember correctly. when first setting this up, the operating system will see one 40 gig hard drive. then you just format the 40 gigs, and load windows. my understanding is that when using the raid setup, software will read-write to both hard drives at same time. there is not a 2x speedup. but there is some speedup, in my case it was very little. the boot process is more complicated with this raid card. i played with this for awhile, and then took it back out. i did not like the boot up with raid card. with chess software, it seems cache, ram and mhz are important. 13 rules for having the strongest chess program system are: 1. best ram 2. maximum mhz (amd for now) 3. one single 7200 hard drive (for now) 4. clean/lean operating system (get all that crap off your system) 5. learn your software, (test different settings)(test, test, test) 6. know your hardware (touch it, talk to it, keep her looking good) 7. stay sober (for important games) 8. read this forum daily 9. believe only 60% of what you read 10. eat healthy 11. say your prayers 12. shower daily 13. question everything kburcham
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