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Hard Drive Upgrade?

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ruin97140

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I am looking to either add to or replace my current hard drive setup.

Currently the two WD 74GIG Raptors running RAID 0 that I have are working fine in relation to performance, but now in the world of digital distribution- games are filling it fast.

I recently had to RMA one back to the manufacture. Once it was returned I noticed it was a different model. After further research I found that one was SATA 1.5Gb/s and the replacement SATA 3.0Gb/s. Originally I thought that my hard drives were both SATA 3Gb/s... this raises the question- Should I just scrap this setup, since I am not going to go buy another 74GIG hard drive just to match the other SATA 3Gb/s? If not, I would be looking for a large hard drive to add in to my machine. Any good recommendations? Also, is putting games on a separate hard drive than the OS cause a decrease in game performance?

If I am to scrap the current setup, what options are best for performance? I have seen people running two big drives RAID 0, some running one SSD and a large high performance hard drive. There are so many options, I dont know where to start.

Note: the board I have supports SATA 6.

-Cost does play a small factor, I am not looking to spend hundreds of dollars just to squeeze out a higher benchmark.

Please let me know if you require any further details to assist me.

thanks in advance for any information given.:)
 
You do not need to match. I would just use both drives together. The SATA1 / SATA2 difference will not make a big difference (if any). We are only just now approaching hard disks that can saturate SATA1.

If you do not like that you can spend $50 and get a single 1 platter 500GB 7200 RPM drive.
 
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