I thought so =)
maybe in the future we will do another roundup using SATA drives
will extend the list of tests to include a wider range of possible scenario's

I'm using two (2) Maxtor 80g SATA's w/the 8m buffer. I used to run two (2) 20g ATA133 2m buffer Maxtors. With those I ran them in Raid0 & used 32k chunk size for the best performance. Well as told by a friend in the know. My question is, will the same 32k chunk size be the best for performance (i.e. gaming & such) w/my new SATA HDD's ??? I will list system specs:
A-bit (NF7-S v2.0)[uses the SiliconImage SI3112a SATA Raid controller]
AMD (XP2100) @2.5Ghz
Corsair (XMS3500)(11.5x218)2x512mb
Maxtor (6Y080MO) (2) 80g 7200rpm 8m buffer SATA HDD's
Sony 52x34x52 CD/RW
ATI Radeon 9800XT
SB Audigy X-Gamer
TTGI 520w PSU
The one thing I noticed is my current ATA is set @ ATA100, & my highest is @ ATA133 ?? I thought the SATA interface would @ least show ATA150. I have the latest BIOS & drivers, for everything. Just wanting to know, what Kb chunk-size to go with on these new HDD's for performance. Thanx again.

only way to know your best "chunk size" is to experiment, if you copy large files on those drives = large stripe size, if you want to install your OS on it, then a smaller stripe size will improve the performance

Well yes I use the two SATA's as my boot drives. I do transfer large files on my network & burn music & data. (i.e.-like that new DesertCombat 0.7) That was about a 600mb file. Mostly looking for the fastest game & map loads I can get w/these. Also read & write speeds as well. As you can probably tell, I play D.C. So maybe that can give you some more info. But yes, I will experiment w/them some more. Like I said, they're @ 32kb size now & it seems faster. Maybe 16k or 64k will be faster for me. We'll see. Thanx for such a speed reply. Must be a nite-owl like me. ;)

more like an early bird :)
was 8am over here

32K should be good already, but watch out with that RAID-0

What's best for gaming purposes: raid 0 or raid 1?

By reading the article I would of thought raid 1 would be best but you guys all seem to use raid 0 ...

raid0 is the fastest :)

RAID 1 provide fail safe, lower write speed, and higher cost.

RAID 0 can provide faster read/write speeds then RAID 1 but it is a risk, if you put your save-games on a none-RAID partition however you can have lightening fast hard drives where the games data files are :)

wait, let me see if I get this: what you are saying is that I should have a number of disk in raid 0 with all the normal files on and keep the save games on a seperate disk that's not in the raid array?

correct :)