stealthycactus 1 Posted January 11, 2012 I need some opinions on if this actually will work. I noticed that Arma 2 uses a very high amount of disk read/writes, so i basically moves half of the games core files (building, anims, plants) to a second hard-drive, so im assuming that will lets me utilize the combined Read/write speeds of 2 hard-drives instead of just one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigsam656 10 Posted January 11, 2012 Unfortunately that won't work, if anything it would slow things down. Many people report good improvements when using solid state drives or RAM disks. You could also consider setting up your two hard drives in RAID. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stealthycactus 1 Posted January 11, 2012 I cannot use a Raid 0 setup because my HDD's are 2 different sizes, but if Arma is MAXING my hardrives read speed, surely moving files over to a different hardrive would make it run faster? Since you have 2 separate platters being read at the same time? the main thing i noticed was loading speeds were a lot faster, and i had a lot less lag on Zargabad(lots of interiors) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kindling 1 Posted January 12, 2012 You can use software RAID since Windows 2000 - Start -> Run -> compmgmt.msc, choose Disk Management and right click on each disk and convert them to Dynamic Disks, you can then right click on a volume (partition) and click 'Add Mirror' to mirror it to another disk. But certainly moving some of the files to another disk will make things a little faster, though maybe not as fast as software RAID as described or a RAM disk. RAM disks are really worth it if you have over 2GB of RAM (or maybe over 3GB if you use Windows Vista or 7). Linux has LVM/mdadm and tmpfs/ramfs for similar functionality. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
