01-05-2013, 02:46 AM
Waste of time. Get an SSD, or RAM.
Oh, wait, with what you have available, I'd RAID 0 but be aware using the OS to software RAID has a CPU performance hit of something like 10%, so while you'll write data to the combined disks almost twice as fast you'll have a modest CPU performance hit.
Wouldn't think an external drive over USB would be faster than an internal drive unless those internal drives are really low quality. Is that a 3.5" drive? They can be a little faster on large data transfers when the data's written out towards the edge of the drive.
Oh, wait, with what you have available, I'd RAID 0 but be aware using the OS to software RAID has a CPU performance hit of something like 10%, so while you'll write data to the combined disks almost twice as fast you'll have a modest CPU performance hit.
Wouldn't think an external drive over USB would be faster than an internal drive unless those internal drives are really low quality. Is that a 3.5" drive? They can be a little faster on large data transfers when the data's written out towards the edge of the drive.