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I have a 256gb SSD in my main system, coupled with 2 2TB WD Blacks for games storage in Raid0. I put two partitions on there - I short stroked the first partition and created another one to fill up the rest of the drive. Well, 5 years later, that isn't working so well, as the short stroked section is showing slower 4k random read and write times than the other part.
I need the whole 2TB so I'm wondering now if I would be better off just having one partition covering the entire Raid array.
So clearly my drive configuration isn't working, and it's got me wondering is there any actual point to Raid0 these days? It's a bit old school, but still seems like a valid way to get better than a single HDD performance without going the whole hog to an SSD. Since I can't afford an SSD big enough, what are the benefits over single drives for gaming? Noticed in a few games I've been getting stutter due to texture pop-in lately and looking at the bechmark results I'm starting to realise why!
I need the whole 2TB so I'm wondering now if I would be better off just having one partition covering the entire Raid array.
So clearly my drive configuration isn't working, and it's got me wondering is there any actual point to Raid0 these days? It's a bit old school, but still seems like a valid way to get better than a single HDD performance without going the whole hog to an SSD. Since I can't afford an SSD big enough, what are the benefits over single drives for gaming? Noticed in a few games I've been getting stutter due to texture pop-in lately and looking at the bechmark results I'm starting to realise why!