"This was the reason IDE RAID was created: to make a cheap solution and bring it down from being an exclusive solution for servers and workstations to high-end and even mid-range performance home users."
I tend to believe it was more of a case of companies trying to make a buck off the uninformed. Intel PIII speeds up the internet? Yep, just like IDE RAID speeds up email, gaming, and any other typical computing task. All you need is some chart showing 2 bars, one significantly longer than the other, regardless of how obscure the situation, then watch the lemmings come running to get one.
"You talk about servers, in fact, if these IDE RAID/SW RAID solutions were meant for servers, why is it that among these RAID solutions, there is only one RAID 5 solution, Windows 2000 Server."
I never said IDE RAID was intended for anything. I said what RAID was originally intended to do. I don't get what you are trying to say with the rest of that. Who in their right mind would run a server on a RAID 0 array? RAID 0 is ideal for highend workstations that do things like A/V editing. 2000 Server has RAID 5, but I cringe at the thought of what that would do to a CPU with a few drives on the array.
I made no assumption of your system, since obviously I have no way of knowing what it was. I was making a general statement, that increasing your RAM will give your applications a larger speed boost than a RAID array will. Also, I said nothing about application loading, you said running "superfast". The boot statement was seperate. I have yet to see an application that takes more than maybe 5 seconds to load on a decent system. I wish my time was so critical that I couldn't wait that long. If you are setting up a RAID array because you want faster apps loading and that will be its main benefit, you need to rethink what you are trying to do, because you aren't going to gain much at all.
British:
You will see less of an improvement if you add more RAM as adding RAM reduces the number of times your system has to access your HD.
I tend to believe it was more of a case of companies trying to make a buck off the uninformed. Intel PIII speeds up the internet? Yep, just like IDE RAID speeds up email, gaming, and any other typical computing task. All you need is some chart showing 2 bars, one significantly longer than the other, regardless of how obscure the situation, then watch the lemmings come running to get one.
"You talk about servers, in fact, if these IDE RAID/SW RAID solutions were meant for servers, why is it that among these RAID solutions, there is only one RAID 5 solution, Windows 2000 Server."
I never said IDE RAID was intended for anything. I said what RAID was originally intended to do. I don't get what you are trying to say with the rest of that. Who in their right mind would run a server on a RAID 0 array? RAID 0 is ideal for highend workstations that do things like A/V editing. 2000 Server has RAID 5, but I cringe at the thought of what that would do to a CPU with a few drives on the array.
I made no assumption of your system, since obviously I have no way of knowing what it was. I was making a general statement, that increasing your RAM will give your applications a larger speed boost than a RAID array will. Also, I said nothing about application loading, you said running "superfast". The boot statement was seperate. I have yet to see an application that takes more than maybe 5 seconds to load on a decent system. I wish my time was so critical that I couldn't wait that long. If you are setting up a RAID array because you want faster apps loading and that will be its main benefit, you need to rethink what you are trying to do, because you aren't going to gain much at all.
British:
You will see less of an improvement if you add more RAM as adding RAM reduces the number of times your system has to access your HD.