4x 320gb 7200.10 or 4x 74gb raptor RAID 0?

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I have two 8mb cache 74gb raptors now and I'm thinking about either getting two more or selling them and getting 4 seagates. My only concerns are game loading and OS responsiveness. As far as I know the seagates will have greater bandwidth but will it make up for the slower platter? Would I be best to switch to 16mb cache raptors?
 
You'd be better off adding another two raptors. Why would you use 4x320gb for your system drive..... That's a complete waste.
 
Why would you use 4x320gb for your system drive..... That's a complete waste.
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Word. Two will give you more responsiveness than four. And the improved STR of two drives will be plenty even though not really even a factor in your use.
 
Do what i did.

Sell the 2 raptors, get a 150GB Raptor for the OS, 2 x 500GB drives for RAID 0 and a 750GB drive for storage.
 
Burner27 said:
Do what i did.

Sell the 2 raptors, get a 150GB Raptor for the OS, 2 x 500GB drives for RAID 0 and a 750GB drive for storage.
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what is the point of the RAID 0 array?
 
faster loading times - but how much faster and how much a person would notice it or benefit from it is always a hot debate.
 
redd38 said:
what is the point of the RAID 0 array?
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I do a lot of video re-encoding. the Raid helps. I would never use it for an OS drive.
 
Burner27 said:
I would never use it for an OS drive.
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Why so? I run it on my OS... Though, I don't keep anything important on the OS drive incase the array goes corrupt. Really speeds up sequential reads, like loading some games and copying files to the OS from another drive. I guess its just that I could have my OS drive go corrupt and not give a squat since I don't keep anything important on it. That's what storage drives are for :)
 
DriveEuro said:
Why so? I run it on my OS... Though, I don't keep anything important on the OS drive incase the array goes corrupt. Really speeds up sequential reads, like loading some games and copying files to the OS from another drive. I guess its just that I could have my OS drive go corrupt and not give a squat since I don't keep anything important on it. That's what storage drives are for :)
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Not by much it doesn't.
 
I don't know what you guys are smoking, I see a HUGE difference between raid and single drive. Hell running matrix raid on my old p5b deluxe I was getting ~40mb faster sustained read than my nvraid array and it felt MUCH faster.

So you're saying 2>4 as far as responsiveness goes? Would it be wise to switch to 16mb cache raptors? Is the 150gb model faster than the 74gb 16mb cache version?
 
z3r0- said:
I don't know what you guys are smoking, I see a HUGE difference between raid and single drive. Hell running matrix raid on my old p5b deluxe I was getting ~40mb faster sustained read than my nvraid array and it felt MUCH faster.
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You basing that on synthetic benchmarks. Try using real world apps to test.
 
Burner27 said:
You basing that on synthetic benchmarks. Try using real world apps to test.
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Note how it said the word FEEL and FASTER because it would load games and install apps much quicker?
 
The 16MB cache Raptors are a generation newer and a good deal faster.
 
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