does raid 0 help with 4K performance

[Magicpandajuice]

So, I have a couple of hard drives, 2 x1tb and a single 2 tb drive, I’m planning on putting the 1tb drives in a hardware raid then combine them with the 2tb with a software raid, the way I see it, Raid 0 on hard drives should increase the 4K and small file performance significantly, but does it? I’m fairly new to raid, I don’t really care for any sort of redundancy as the entire thing is strictly for games and non important files

[Lorant]

9 minutes ago, Magicpandajuice said:

So, I have a couple of hard drives, 2 x1tb and a single 2 tb drive, I’m planning on putting the 1tb drives in a hardware raid then combine them with the 2tb with a software raid, the way I see it, Raid 0 on hard drives should increase the 4K and small file performance significantly, but does it? I’m fairly new to raid, I don’t really care for any sort of redundancy as the entire thing is strictly for games and non important files

RAID 0 will net you 25-30% faster load times in your games.

 

That's your real world result, regardless of any Crystal Mark drive bench for 4k and small file mumbo jumbo.