raptor for boot drive or dedicated "game drive"?

[Ogerx]

so.. I have a 320g barracuda on the way.. will prolly end up reformatting after it comes cause things are seeming pretty slow lately... been around a year since I've reformatted.. just wondering what you people would recommend for a drive setup?..

I find it pretty F'ing amazing how slow game/app loading gets just from "time" and installing junk etc on windows...(seriously.. for an example.. I go from being the first in game in bf2 on a fresh reformat to getting in the game after half the daym map has already been captured and people already have kills...)
I have yet to find a way to speed things up with a windows install other than reformatting... (defrag/reg cleaning forget it...)

have the 74g raptor as my main disk atm with some games on it.. and a 120 deskstar.. games seem equally slow loading from either atm.. think it would be better to use a partition on the new 320g as a boot drive and the raptor for games "only" or no?

[Tyranos]

I use a 74 gb for os, programs, and some games. I have a 150gb for the rest of the games and a 500 caviar for misc data.

[fabulouscoops]

Keep your OS and games on the Raptor and defrag twice a week.

[inkfx]

I just installed a 36GB Raptor for boot/programs. I notice a huge difference when it comes to loading games. It feels like the times are almost cut in half. I ran a WD 80GB IDE drive before.

[Mycobacteria]

I had raptor for windows once.... it didnt seem to boot into windows any faster...

[jivetrky]

Keep your OS and games on the Raptor and defrag twice a week.

This is what I did, I'd recommend going that way.

[Ageo24]

Keep your OS and games on the Raptor and defrag twice a week.

That's exactly what I do with my 2 36 gig raided raptors.

[Ogerx]

well.. "seeming pretty slow lately" was kinda a understatement... finally reformatted yesterday.. decided to do a couple before and after benchmarks..

raptor before reformat:
http://home.comcast.net/~xergo/raptorbefore.JPG

raptor after reformat:
http://home.comcast.net/~xergo/raptorafter.JPG

and the 320 barracuda..(before and after stayed about the same)
http://home.comcast.net/~xergo/fattydrive.JPG

the raptor still seems kinda low oh well..
(but WOW the before speeds and cpu usage... argh windows)

[jivetrky]

well.. "seeming pretty slow lately" was kinda a understatement... finally reformatted yesterday.. decided to do a couple before and after benchmarks..

raptor before reformat:
[-IMG]http://home.comcast.net/~xergo/raptorbefore.JPG[/IMG]

raptor after reformat:
[-IMG]http://home.comcast.net/~xergo/raptorafter.JPG[/IMG]

and the 320 barracuda..(before and after stayed about the same)
[-IMG]http://home.comcast.net/~xergo/fattydrive.JPG[/IMG]

the raptor still seems kinda low oh well..(but WOW the before speeds.. argh windows)

Crikey, that's way low.....you should defrag :)

Even the after #'s seem a bit low, the transfer speeds and the latency. :shrug:

[milano_chris]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/milano_chris/untitled-12.jpg

That's my Stripe Raptors.

[Telstar]

Defrag dude!
Get diskeeper 2007 pro premium and never get that pathetic fragmentation state again.
You must also keep at least 20% of the drive free or windows performance totally blows.

[thideras]

You must also keep at least 20% of the drive free or windows performance totally blows.

Ok, now that makes no sense....

[Ogerx]

Ok, now that makes no sense....
I free'd up 45gig on the drive before reformatting and tried the benchmark and still got the same 9-10megs a sec.. so dunno if I believe that one either.. I understand how the stuff on the "end" of the drive will be slower though..

anyway I changed my out look on defragging... only took hundreds of reformats over 10 years or so to get a clue there..:bang head
(after a fresh format and like nothing on the drive reinstalled yet I still found it 35% fragmented already ...)

[Douken]

Ok, now that makes no sense....
why not? BTW, Windows defrag sux(?)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c52/Douken/catastrofe.jpg