New 7200 harddrive runs game smoother then first gen.raid0 raptors?

[Eotore 10]

Hi,bought a new seagate 7200.12 500gig harddrive.Installed fresh OS with arma 2.I also have a raid0 setup with first gen. 74gig raptor hard drives from 2005year.The load time for arma2 is faster on the raptors.Not sure if this makes sense but running the game on the new seagate 7200.12 the graphics look a little more detailed then running on the rapors.If flying the little stutter i get on the raptors is almost un noticeable now on the 7200.12.Are the new harddrives just build better even though its a 7200 speed then a 2005 raptor 10,000rpm harddrive in that graphics can be drawn faster on screen giving better picture of the game?

[Taxman 10]

IM not sure buddy,, but it is def related to speed of drive, I recently bought an SSD and clean install of Win7 on it with a clean install of arma2 I couldnt believe the difference, not just load times etc,, thats expected but the smoothness of the game now is unbelievable..... if you can stretch to an SSD then I def. reccomend that.

[Mayhem McAwesome 10]

it´s probably the recent windows install that makes it faster... a fragmented drive loads much slower than a fresh one...

tip: for fast and reliable RAID, don´t install windows on the raid drive... my pc has 4 hd´s... two of them in RAID (where arma is, pretty fast, faster than my brother´s core i7 rig even tho i have only a core2duo... to load at least)

windows is installed in the smallest of the 4 drives, thus it´s not able to make as much of a mess on the two less-reliable RAID drives

windows is sloppy... it fragments it´s drive as if it was a bodily function... best to keep away from sensitive stuff... also, you can avoid a lot of malware just by having windows on a drive other than C: (mine´s on D:)

i´ve heard many horror stories about RAID setups, never had any major problems myself, i believe that´s because i don´t have windows on that drive

[Pyronick 21]

Try two SSDs in stripe (RAID0) on a SAS backplane.

I've even seen RAID configurations with SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs combined in a double-stripe where the SAS HDDs were used for their sustained speeds and the SSDs acted as some form of cache.

That all for an Oracle database... :D

Anyway, if you have the cash. Get a SAS-2 controller, it's superior over SATA-3 due to it's intelligent commands (auto-TRIM instead of software TRIM) and dedicated processor and cache memory.