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ScottL4784

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12-17-2007 at 08:12:48 PM

anyone know if a 16kb stripe size would be good for a general/gaming computer?

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12-17-2007 at 09:20:44 PM

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The standard/optimal general use stripe size on modern RAID controllers is 64K.

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01-02-2008 at 03:43:00 AM

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32 or 64K is optimal for running windows and normal use. Experiment to see which is better, but for games, to speed up loading levels (which are generally large files), go for 64K.

128K is good for large files (vids, isos, mp3s etc) and multimedia editing.

16K will give you very impressive synthetic benchmarks, but will translate to crap performance in real life, as the overhead wasted seeking between the 2 drives and reassembling the data will far outweigh speed gains.

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