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Quake 4 - Opening Cinematic, First Run Load
Hitachi Deskstar Stripe
Maxtor DiamondMax Stripe
Hitachi Deskstar
Maxtor DiamondMax
44044
43683
43713
43813 (Average)
.
48507
48534
49057
48699 (Average)
.
42804
42687
42538
42676 (Average)
.
50177
49969
50073
50073 (Average)
Quake 4 - Opening Cinematic, Consecutive Load
Hitachi Deskstar Stripe
Maxtor DiamondMax Stripe
Hitachi Deskstar
Maxtor DiamondMax
23740
22644
22297
22893 (Average)
.
23582
23150
22688
23140 (Average)
.
23279
22600
22615
22831 (Average)
.
23058
22765
22646
22823 (Average)

With Quake 4, we again see first time loads are much shorter in duration with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 than our DiamondMax 10 drives. That applies when we ran these hard drives as single drives or in a RAID 0 array.  Unlike F.E.A.R, we only save 2 seconds overall with a stripe array and with such a long load, it's actually a moot point. Results with consecutive loads on both drives, as a single drive and in a stripe array are pretty much in the same, so it's obvious the hard drive is not much of factor here. 

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