Unfortunately, my adviser is a cheap-ass, I have the following available to me:
1) 1x 3-4 year old 74 gig raptor
2) 2x 3-4 year old 80 gig IDE Seagate Barracudas
3) New drive in my previous post
4) Random external drives
I've thought of going raid with the 2 Seagates, is there any way...
I'm building a new rig, and I can either wipe and use a ~3-4 year old Raptor as my primary drive, or this
what do you guys think?
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1) 74 gig version of the Raptor
2) I do a lot of computational work, so in order of importance to me:
Performance
Reliability (if a week-long...