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[Traak]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Traak: It's not the fact that it's larger that really matters. It's that it's newer.
As stated you're not technically correct and potentially misleading. So stop saying it like that:
A 1TB drive based on a 1TB platter is going to be faster than a 1.5TB drive based on 3 500GB platters. And it hardly matters at all within a manufactures range of current drives because they all use the same platters.

And seriously, it doesn't even matter for frame rates, just load times.

Only load times? So you have zero HDD activity from the second a continent loads until you leave for another continent? You are telling me that your HDD light does not come on, not one time, not for a millisecond, for the whole time you are fighting on one continent?

If that is not the case, then HDD i/o speed matters.

Also, I will explain it again: how far the wands on a HDD have to move impacts the speed of data i/o. if you have six wands putting data on six platter surfaces, you will move data faster than you will with two wands putting data on two platter surfaces, because it will mean less wand movement, laterally, per quantity of data.

Stacking extra HDD's in RAID 0 leverages that and the extra i/o bandwidth of having extra drives and their attendant data handling speeds. Twenty drives in RAID 0 will input and output data faster than one drive will. Part of the reason is that the drives have a certain quantity of cache per drive. Another part is that it is 1/20th the wand movement per quantity of data.