Author: Kevin Strickland
Date: 17:10:51 04/22/02
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On April 22, 2002 at 19:55:05, K. Burcham wrote: >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 Actually most people went out and bought new motherboards when ATA 66/100 came out. I have two Maxtor 60 gig drives and I noticed _no_ different when putting them on ATA 100. To test I used a normal ATA 33 slot on my motherboard, and an ATA 100 card. Selected a 700 meg database to decompress. Both took exactly 41 seconds to extract. There was no difference. This test was under Windows 2000. Now I have a motherboard that can use ATA 133 and a hard drive that can match it. I should try it again but I assume the results will be the same. If a drive is 7200 prm it is just that. Nothing can really boost performance.
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