This is just with one wow instance running. No other programs running at all.

It's mainly a hassle when I'm on a break in a raid or something and want to flip to the bank alt on the same account. There's a lot of zone data being read and re-read that gets annoying.

I've also noticed that when zoning into an instance around other players, those who zone in after I do will almost always be ahead of me inside the instance. I'm thinking perhaps something in the raid0 setup I'm running is preventing an efficient large sequental read from happening, or something along those lines.

The solid state ram drives I'd mentioned start at around $130 for an 8gig, which I figured would be perfect for trying with wow. It's too bad newegg is out of stock....

One other reason I was asking here is because I know some are doing the network boot for other machines, and I know from personal experience that for example, installing a new package is much faster from a network server than even a local hard drive. I'd go gigabit network with a speedy bsd nfs share if I thought it would help.

Cheers!
Blorton