Joseph Ferano

You are right, but I never said anything about the write speeds of RAID 5, which obviously, because of parity, is one of the slowest at writing. I was refering to the read speeds only, which is the important factor when loading a level. RAID 5 is probably one of the best for read speeds. Fault tolerance is not a concern of mine right now, or what you call resilience. I did my setup with performance in mind. All my important files are safely stored in a seperate 500gb HD with an external as a mirror. You have a good point, RAID 0+1 and RAID 10 are excellent for performance and fault tolerance. Care to do the benchmarks?

Thanks to everybody for responding. First of all, we can all make educated guesses, but the fun part would be to actually do the benchmarks and test out the levels. RAID 0 is just as fast as RAID 1 when it comes to read speeds. It isnt just made for write transfers. The only thing that could possibly be faster than a RAID 0 in reading is a RAID 5, cause usually you have 3 HDs or more accesing the data. RAID 0 doesnt do well at small sizes and bad on larger ones. Thats all dependant on the stripe size. The smaller your stripe size, the better for smaller files, the larger the size, the better for big files. I plan on purchasing the game today, so if anybody wants, just record your favorite mission, hopefully one that takes a while to load, and then, as soon as I purchase the game, ill test it out myself. Itll be fun. Take care!

Hello everybody! First post here and just starting to get into the game. I am playing the demo and will beging to play the full game soon. I have a question slightly non game related as my first post. Im sure to start many more game related ones since this game looks might interesting. Anyway, can anybody provide loading times for a level in this game? Preferably the demo mission. Reason being, I have a fairly high end RAID 0 setup and I want to crossreference with you guys here to see if my speeds are up to par. Basically, im a little worried that the stripe size I chose (32k) is a little too small, so if anyone can help me out here, id appreciate it greatly. The load time of the German mission in the demo from the press of "Start Battle" button to the load of the level is 36 seconds by stop watch. Thanks for the help!!