Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
Not really. More IOPS does make things faster, while more cores will do zero. The thing is, more IOPS does reduce the time for some operations to complete from like 0.1s to 0.01s so the difference probably won't be felt, but it is still there. 300fps versus 100fps is another good comparison.
A 1000 drive RAID 10 will make huge IOPS and be slower than a single good SSD, for a home user of course. Above some point it doesn't reduce anything. Exactly like core count.