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Samstag:
Go for the RAID 0 and you won't be sorry. I've got a couple of slow Seagate SATAs in a RAID 0 and they scream compared to a single-drive setup. As someone else mentioned, it's probably a waste in a MAME-only setup, but when it comes to moving a lot of data around, running two of those Raptors is going to give you phenomenol transfer rates.
One of these days I want to pick up a couple of those Raptors to replace my slow 80 gig drives.
whammoed:
How does running raid0 affect boot times? Does it speed it up at all? Also what about the actual loading of the rom when a large game in mame is started...would that portion be faster?
Samstag:
Boot times are noticeably faster, and loading a large rom would be faster. I don't think I'd spend the money on a RAID 0 system just for those features, though. I move a lot of large files around on a regular basis so I get a lot of benefit out of it. On a MAME machine you're probably not going to be spending a lot of time waiting for it to boot or load roms compared to the amount of time you'll be playing a game (where disk speed becomes meaningless).
whammoed:
Gotcha...sometimes I contemplate a mame system where money is no object. :-*
Me: "yea, I run a raid0 with sata raptors for faster boots and rom loads"
Guest: "Whatever there geek boy, let's play some Donkey Kong."
krick:
RAID0 can be VERY fast when done correctly.
The problem is that hard drives made today totally suck and are not reliable at all.
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