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Good drives for raid?

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Right now I have a raptor, and, being I do not game nearly as much, I am thinking of maybe selling the raptor and going with 2 larger drives to raid together in raid 0.

I have a DFI lanparty ut nforce 3 250gb board which has sata 150 ports on it, later on I plan to upgrade my mobo/proc so I am looking at drives that are sata3.

I was thinking of maybe buying 2 seagate 120 giggers or something like that, what are your thoughts? I have been out of the loop awhile, would these seagates be a good option to run in raid? I prefer seagate as I have never had an issue with one and the 5 yr warranty is killer.
 
Considering the price point of 3x0GB HDDs vs. 120GB HDDs, I think it would be cheaper if you went for a single 3x0 GB drive over two 120GB HDDs. The performance difference in most applications should be negligible. Unfortunately, there isn't a benchmark available to backup my statement.
 
But access/seek times should be faster being they are in raid 0.
 
If you are moving large files it MIGHT be faster, but unless you're doing professional video editing then it's really not for you. You also basically quadrouple the chances that you'll lose all your data and slow your system down in the process. Just enjoy your Raptor. The difference in access/seek times don't make any difference when you're typing IM's while listening to music.
 
sc0tty8 said:
But access/seek times should be faster being they are in raid 0.
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well, depending on the size of the file you are accessing and its location, the access time may be slower with a RAID-0 array. Do are likely correct about the STR though.
 
general said:
If you are moving large files it MIGHT be faster, but unless you're doing professional video editing then it's really not for you. You also basically quadrouple the chances that you'll lose all your data and slow your system down in the process. Just enjoy your Raptor. The difference in access/seek times don't make any difference when you're typing IM's while listening to music.
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Enjoy my raptor? Its out of space and I am not going to buy a bigger raptor :p
 
drizzt81 said:
why not buy a second HDD?
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I have 3 other drives that are full. Each have less then 1 gig free. I am waiting for the 500's to come down on price before I buy more storage drives...
 
sc0tty8 said:
Enjoy my raptor? Its out of space and I am not going to buy a bigger raptor :p
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Then buy two larger disks and RAID 1 them if you care about the data that they will contain.
 
feigned said:
Then buy two larger disks and RAID 1 them if you care about the data that they will contain.
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it would be a primary disk setup, meaning, if the crap is lost, its not that much of a loss, but, I see outpost has 400 giggers on sale for 109$, no limit, no rebates...
 
I didn't realize the space concern. Buy two 400Gb drives and run them, as suggested, in RAID-1. That way, you'll have a fast drive for your system and installed apps and your data can safely sit on the 400Gb array.
 
sc0tty8 said:
it would be a primary disk setup, meaning, if the crap is lost, its not that much of a loss, but, I see outpost has 400 giggers on sale for 109$, no limit, no rebates...
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So tell me why you aren't buying two of them now then? :p

If you only want one then by all means...but if you're thinking about waiting for the 500GB disks to come down in price you're crazy. Or buy two and do single disks. If they're expendable then no big deal if you choose one or two. But don't wait for the 500's to come down, it's not worth it.
 
feigned said:
So tell me why you aren't buying two of them now then? :p

If you only want one then by all means...but if you're thinking about waiting for the 500GB disks to come down in price you're crazy. Or buy two and do single disks. If they're expendable then no big deal if you choose one or two. But don't wait for the 500's to come down, it's not worth it.
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I'd like to have more drives of the same size/brand then mix them up, why not wait for them? Shouldn't be long until they are around 100$ after rebate, then I will pick up 4 of them and be done with it for years to come.
 
sc0tty8 said:
I'd like to have more drives of the same size/brand then mix them up, why not wait for them? Shouldn't be long until they are around 100$ after rebate, then I will pick up 4 of them and be done with it for years to come.
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Ultimately it is your choice.

But think of it this way...you buy 4 400GB disks now at ~100$...and when you want to add some capacity to your array all you do is spend even less than that per disk for the 400's.

I don't know, I think this is a case of "less is more." But yeah man, totally your decision.
 
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