Good drives for RAID-0?

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Alpha736

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I've been thinking about getting 2 or more of the Western Digital 640gb Caviar Black drives and putting them in RAID-0, but I wanted to see what my other options are.

I don't absolutely need all that space (But atleast 500gb)(I use other drives for storage/backup), I'm just looking for a bit of a speed improvement, are there any smaller/cheaper drives that will perform as well, or maybe some slightly more expensive drives that are a better option?

I've heard some people say they've had trouble RAIDing the WD 640gb Blacks, and other people say it works fine, but it is very important for me to have a drive that will perform well in a RAID.

Thanks.
 
Reviews I've seen show the Samsung F3 doing really well in Raid 0.
 
The 640's short stroked to 300gb usable would be better than the 320 with 300 usable.

Not sure about TLER issue though.
 
I've been running 2 of the WD Black 640s for a year in RAID 0 with no problems, A coworker here has a pair of 1TB Spinpoint F1s and mine beat his for speed.
 
xxEIEIOxx said:
I've been running 2 of the WD Black 640s for a year in RAID 0 with no problems, A coworker here has a pair of 1TB Spinpoint F1s and mine beat his for speed.
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Would you recommend I go with the older 640gb drives with 32mb of cache? Or should I go with the new ones that have 64mb? I think it's the newer ones that were giving people issues with TLER, but some people were still able to RAID.
 
I have the ones withe the 32mb cache. I would probably recommend those as they work for me.
 
I went ahead and bought 4x Western Digital RE3 WD3202ABYS, I'm gunna put them in RAID-0. Don't worry, I have a backup.

I'm thinking I'll get some pretty damn fast throughput with these drives, but latency will suffer a bit. Does anyone else have a similar setup or have any suggestions or commentary on this setup?
 
Also, does anyone have a recommendation on what Stripe size I should use for this 4x HDD RAID-0? I was thinking either 64kb or 128kb. I'm mostly looking to get faster boot/load times for games, but I also run VMs.
 
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