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It does improve write speed but it won't improve performance.

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So right now I decide to go with RAID 0. But is it worth it to RAID two 1TB drives or go with single 1TB drive?

 

 

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So it won't give increase FPS (frame rate) in games such as BF4, or Minecraft?

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So it won't give increase FPS (frame rate) in games such as BF4, or Minecraft?

 

No. Slightly smaller gameplay video files from fraps though maybe.

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It does improve write speed but it won't improve performance.

 

What? How is this an answer @TechLabs?

 

RAID 0 improves performance by 2X no matter the drive make and model, unless you use dead drives.

 

What are people on these days? Its as if posters are just posting for count and answers for LOL's

 

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What? How is this an answer @TechLabs?

 

RAID 0 improves performance by 2X no matter the drive make and model, unless you use dead drives.

 

What are people on these days? Its as if posters are just posting for count and answers for LOL's

 

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What are you smoking? RAID 0 improves write speed but it does not improve performance when you're recording.

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What are you smoking? RAID 0 improves write speed but it does not improve performance when you're recording.

It kinda depends on what is decreasing your performance. A lot of the time the thing that is screwing your computer over when recording with FRAPs is the HDD. Depending on the resolution and frame rate you're recording at, running RAID 0 may well increase performance. That being said, a single 7200rpm drive is fine for 1080p 30fps with FRAPs

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What are you smoking? RAID 0 improves write speed but it does not improve performance when you're recording.

 

I'm on RAID 0, and it to date has speed up everything, that's what I'm on. You I have no idea and don't want to know as you obviously either configured it wrong or have never used it.

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I'm on RAID 0, and it to date has speed up everything, that's what I'm on. You I have no idea and don't want to know as you obviously either configured it wrong or have never used it.

I'm talking about game performance while recording with fraps to a RAID 0 drive. What are YOU talking about?!

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I trying to say if I RAID 0 my drives. Does it improve my gameplay performance while recording with fraps (so less lag in games), or does it make fraps video file be to play back more smoothly because of the write speed (less FPS drop)? 

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I trying to say if I RAID 0 my drives. Does it improve my gameplay performance while recording with fraps (so less lag in games), or does it make fraps video file be to play back more smoothly because of the write speed (less FPS drop)? 

It can increase performance, but we'd need to know more about your recording settings.

 

Resolution, desired frame rate, whether you're using lossless capture? All of these things impact the required performance of your storage.

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Fraps is shit, To the point that I don't even need to say why,... everyone knows why.

Use something better. DXtory/OBS, and a few other alternatives fill the need without the fraps crap.

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In my experience Fraps gives the ultimate quality... And the ultimate file sizes too, lol. You'll only benefit from raid if your HDD cannot keep up with the data rate. In theory, 1080p @30fps lossless produces 4GB worth of avi every 90 seconds, which would make 4000MB/90s = 45MB/s which most HDDs can easily manage. The recording performance is mostly about your cpu, and you gpu needs to easily pull more fps than what you are going to record at.

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In my experience Fraps gives the ultimate quality... And the ultimate file sizes too, lol. You'll only benefit from raid if your HDD cannot keep up with the data rate. In theory, 1080p @30fps lossless produces 4GB worth of avi every 90 seconds, which would make 4000MB/90s = 45MB/s which most HDDs can easily manage. The recording performance is mostly about your cpu, and you gpu needs to easily pull more fps than what you are going to record at.

^ If your CPU is plenty capable, you can also open task manager and select fraps.exe to only use 2 cores out of the 4-8 you may have.. Giving a little more ample space for the game your running to be efficiently at its peak performance.

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It can increase performance, but we'd need to know more about your recording settings.

 

Resolution, desired frame rate, whether you're using lossless capture? All of these things impact the required performance of your storage.

 My Resolution is 1080p, and i wish to record in 60fps.

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Fraps is shit, To the point that I don't even need to say why,... everyone knows why.

Use something better. DXtory/OBS, and a few other alternatives fill the need without the fraps crap.

Fraps give great quality, but huge file size. I don't like Dxtory, because of it overly complicated setting. OBS doesn't produce great quality and its great for livestream. That just my opinion.  :)

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Fraps is shit, To the point that I don't even need to say why,... everyone knows why.

Use something better. DXtory/OBS, and a few other alternatives fill the need without the fraps crap.

DXtory can produce some pretty big files.

 

http://www.hardwarepal.com/nvidia-shadowplay-vs-fraps-vs-dxtory-review-benchmark/6/

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I don't disagree, but ONLY comparing to fraps not shadowplay,(as thats what most people use the first time to record), its way better in the performance penalty, and the performance hit of 1080p 30fps capture is very very minimal on my machine, almost unnoticeable , the only time I actually notice the performance difference to recording is when i do 60fps capture. (using a single 7200rpm drive to record)

 

Plus Fraps can halve your fps or worse when it gets bogged down, dxtory doesn't.

I cant compare to shadowplay as I do not have a Nvidia GPU, however taking shadowplay out of the equation, DXtory with x/h264 eats Fraps for brekky in almost every area.

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