4x WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5" 10000RPM, 16MB Good setup ?

[Imbax32]

Should this harddrive setup solve the lagg problems in shattrath ? 5 boxing

RAID 0: 2x WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5" 10000RPM, 16MB OS AND MAIN WOW 1 map

1x WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5" 10000RPM, 16MB 1 wow map 2 wow windows

1x WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5" 10000RPM, 16MB 1 wow map 2 wow windows

4x WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5" 10000RPM, 16MB

[Harem]

I don't know about "solve" but it would be better than 1 drive running 5 instances. ( I have a flair for stating the obvious ;)

SSD was already covered and I think would be cheaper and do a better job of "solving" Shattrath lag. IMHO

Its all the little pieces and all the seeks the HD is doing that makes the SSD so perfect for fixing Shatt lag.

Again, I'm no expert on this exact issue but I think 5 instances pulling mpq data from one SSD is going to be faster than 2 instances pulling from 1 raptor.

[not5150]

Lag is a combination of factors from processing power, RAM, graphics card, hard drive and network connection. The SSD will solve the hard drive problem, but you still may have lag if you lack in other areas.

It is a nice setup, but I think it's overkill.

[Farleito]

Vista-64 bit? Lots of memory? Make a RAM disk. Simple test to see if SSDs will fix the problem.

[samuraicow]

Vista-64 bit? Lots of memory? Make a RAM disk. Simple test to see if SSDs will fix the problem.

wow is about 7GB big, wouldnt that require this guy to have atlist 8GB (recommended.. 9) to actually be able to do that?


and as for solving, if your thinking shatt is just well.. shatt,"so waht if i lag at shatt, its just for bank\bg queue etc" think again: wintergrasp pvp, mass scale battle? well .. maybe

as for one shooting this, i think it was mentioned before but if you go with few reletvly small SSD drives with room for 1 or maybe 2 (but no more) room for wow, and normal HD for the system.. your golden,

SSD have this issue where it can only write data so many times (loads and loads of times but still, limited) if you only copy wow once everey patch.. its gona last forever (given or take few min =p)

[wowphreak]

Here's a dumb question why do you need multiple installs of wow?

[southeastbeast]

Sounds expensive =) I'm jealous.

[Xzin]

Forget the Raptors. Go SSD. MUCH MUCH faster (if you get the right kinds). You could run all from a single drive even and it MIGHT even be faster than 4+ Raptors.

[Bigdady92]

Dual raid 1's

Raid 1: Main OS, 2 installs of wow
Raid 1: 2+ installs of WoW


Don't do raid 0. no redundancy. if the disks die you are SOL

[not5150]

Dual raid 1's

Raid 1: Main OS, 2 installs of wow
Raid 1: 2+ installs of WoW


Don't do raid 0. no redundancy. if the disks die you are SOLWell that's if redundancy is important to the person. Just use a disk imager like Ghost or Arconis (sp?) to duplicate the contents. Then if you do need to do a restore, it only takes a few minutes.

[Herc130]

Don't know about WoW and lag due to hard drives, since Everquest is mostly zoned and HDD load times really only happens when zoning, so is a difference of waiting 1 second, maybe 2, when zoning on a comparable build with a 7200 rpm 720gb+ to velociraptors. I have however looked into faster HDD's for flight sim x , which is very graphically intensive with lots of stuff to load and you'd think faster HDD's would make a difference, but it does not. At least comparing the 7200 rpm 720gb+ hdds to velociraptors and even SSD's. What makes a difference is CPU, memory and GPU. Look at your HDD light when you play, is it always on? What's your cpu load when you play or memory use? If you are using a newer 7200RPM drive with big platters and you lag, the bottle neck is probably not going to be the hard drive and spending huge $$ for velociraptors or SSD's is just going to empty your pocket of $$ with very little gain. SSD's are very useful for some applications, gaming is not one of them, unless you do a ton of loading times. Once actually in game, it does not matter. Velociraptors....for the $$ and the actual gain compared to new 7200RPM drives, I don't understand why anyone buys those.