I'm thinking about installing a new Harddrive for just BF2 and media. How well will this help performance, since there are no other files to defragment? What about ram drives? Should I get one of these. I curently have less than 500mb left on my drive. Will I see a major improvement?
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Re: Harddrive performance!!
Ram drives are a waste of money. As for performance increase you probably will see a little. Not much more than if your HD is properly defragmented. -
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well you say you want a new drive cuz your current one is nearly full, well what size is your drive now...is it an IDE ar SATA drive. i think the minimum drive size nowadays would be between 80gb and 120gb MINIMUM size... with all the music/movie downloads and not to mention jsut the shear size of games now... i wouldnt get smaller than 120gbComment
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If you want to get into the "cheap high end", you proly want to go with 2G RAM, WD Raptor 74GB.
If you wanna see improvements of ram drives, Anandtech had a review on Gigabyte I-Ram drive (supports up to 4GB). They gave it a pretty good review.
From what I read, people are getting the most performance (level load time) if they have 2GB ram.Comment
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Having only 500 Mb left on your drive doesnt help performance.
You have one drive? What is the size? Is it partitioned?
It is useful to have multiple physical drives. I use 3 internal drives and 1 external drive for backup purposes. Depending on size each drive should be partioned into multiple logical drives.Comment
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u should have like at least 2 gigs left...Comment
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500 MB?!? Thats very low, and what about VRAM... If you have less than 5% of your HD space free, you need another HD.Comment
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I use 2 74GB Raptors on my system as boot drive, currently I load BF2 from it. I plan to buy 2 more Raptors in order to setup my games and proggies folder on a separate array.
Can't complain about it. It's definitely fast. I also use 2GB RAM.Comment
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Thanks!!Comment
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