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roxide

10-20-2008, 04:52 AM

what would be better for playing 4 account on 1 machine

will raid0 give me faster transfer rates or just 2 hard drive with separate account on each hard drive give the performance

magwo

10-20-2008, 05:14 AM

Go for a single SSD instead, reserved for your WoW static data.

krum

10-20-2008, 06:23 AM

what would be better for playing 4 account on 1 machine

will raid0 give me faster transfer rates or just 2 hard drive with separate account on each hard drive give the performanceI play all my accounts from the same install, so RAID-0 would be a winner there. As it turns out I have hardware RAID-0 on my machine via a 3ware RAID controller, but I actually don't run wow off it.

dizz

10-20-2008, 08:02 AM

Wouldn't raid-1 (redundancy, faster reads) be better than raid-0 (striping, faster writes)?

Sam DeathWalker

10-20-2008, 02:46 PM

Go for a single SSD instead, reserved for your WoW static data.

Bingo on that.

Pays to read every thead.