Splitting a program onto separate drives

[Jokubasdk]

I’m wondering wether or not it would be possible to split a program/game and store it on separate drives, and if so wether or not it would increase performance as it could allow fetching data from two different drives simultaneously right?

[Mnky313]

20 minutes ago, Jokubasdk said:

I’m wondering wether or not it would be possible to split a program/game and store it on separate drives, and if so wether or not it would increase performance as it could allow fetching data from two different drives simultaneously right?

The only way I am aware of is to run both drives in RAID 0, but this is not exactly what you would want to do... any game or program would see a much larger benefit from using an SSD.

[Jokubasdk]

4 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

The only way I am aware of is to run both drives in RAID 0, but this is not exactly what you would want to do... any game or program would see a much larger benefit from using an SSD.

Yes from what I understand about raid 0 it is pretty much what I meant, but is there a way to do it for a single program, and how much of a benefit would it be? (Also, I don't necessarily mean between a hdd and ssd, but even two ssd's for example, I'd assume it would also improve that performance)

[Mnky313]

2 minutes ago, Jokubasdk said:

Yes from what I understand about raid 0 it is pretty much what I meant, but is there a way to do it for a single program, and how much of a benefit would it be? (Also, I don't necessarily mean between a hdd and ssd, but even two ssd's for example, I'd assume it would also improve that performance)

99% of programs wont see much of a difference unless its a very large program (like a game) or a particularly slow storage device.  and no, there isn't a way to do this for 1 specific program as far as I know.

[Jokubasdk]

5 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

99% of programs wont see much of a difference unless its a very large program (like a game) or a particularly slow storage device.  and no, there isn't a way to do this for 1 specific program as far as I know.

So loading for example gta v (85gb) which takes a while to load could theoretically see a visible improvement right?

[Mnky313]

1 minute ago, Jokubasdk said:

So loading for example gta v (85gb) which takes a while to load could theoretically see a visible improvement right?

technically yes, but it's probably better to just get an ssd or a faster ssd if you already have one. Even RAID 0 sata SSDs don't compare to a single NVMe drive.

[Jokubasdk]

1 minute ago, Mnky313 said:

technically yes, but it's probably better to just get an ssd or a faster ssd if you already have one. Even RAID 0 sata SSDs don't compare to a single NVMe drive.

Aight, thanks!