Just to Clarify before a purchase!

[CustomModAddict]

As I always tend to buy before being educated, and then always at least 9 out of 10 times make the wrong decision. I just thought I would run it by you guys before ordering.

So in this gamers rig I am building, I have abandon the SDD due to cost for size, versus HDD. But my question is this. I am using a 6GB/s mobo, and I want to do a raid0 for the fastest access time for gaming. Since the system will not be doing much more then gaming, music, and other little things for a 14 year old boy, not much needed for HDD size.

So I was thinking of using a WD Black SATA 6GB/s 64mb 650 GB HDD, or the 1TB version is also fine. Just thought the 1TB was overkill for him. So without going to a 10K HDD this should give me the fastest possible read and access time for gaming, correct?

Second question, is it possible for me to put a small internal HDD in for simply copying over the OS, Drivers and other little applications in case of a HDD failure. Then he can simply boot up from the so called "Emergency Internal HDD", and it would have copy of OS, drivers and stuff. Then he just needs to reinstall his games, and stuff.

And for my own knowledge and education:

What would the performance difference be between say a WD raptor 10K SATA 3.0 Gb/s 300GB 16mb cache versus s WD 7200 SATA 6.0 Gb/s 300GB 32mb cache? You would think the later would be better and faster, not to mention cheaper?

Really appreciate all the help guys and gals.

Thanks

 

[sweloop64]

Mechanical disks(excluding enterprise ones) barely touch 1.5Gb/s
6Gb/s for these kinds of disks is mainly a marketing stunt

When it comes to 10k raptors I'm a bit surprised that people are still buying those instead of SSDs

To sum things up, WD Black 650GB is probably an ok option...
Yes, technically it's possible to have a small emergency hdd. Depending on many factors though, and "simply boot" might not happen, but close...

 

[CustomModAddict]

Mechanical disks(excluding enterprise ones) barely touch 1.5Gb/s
6Gb/s for these kinds of disks is mainly a marketing stunt

When it comes to 10k raptors I'm a bit surprised that people are still buying those instead of SSDs

To sum things up, WD Black 650GB is probably an ok option...
Yes, technically it's possible to have a small emergency hdd. Depending on many factors though, and "simply boot" might not happen, but close...

I was gonna go the SSD route, but cost to capacity just doesn't make a value sense right now, maybe if the price starts to come down. Just seems more valuable to just raid0 two HDD's versus a large capacity SSD.

So a 32MB cache 7200 RPM 6Gb/s isn't going to give me any better performance over a 32mb 7200 RPM 3Gb/s?

So I could just put 3 WD 650 GB 7200RPM 32Mb cache HDD's in the system. 2 of them will run in raid0 for the faster access times for gaming. And the third I want to use as a back up for the system. I just need to know 3 HDD's will be ok, so I can order them.

Thanks

 

[sweloop64]

So a 32MB cache 7200 RPM 6Gb/s isn't going to give me any better performance over a 32mb 7200 RPM 3Gb/s?

If you have a race between two identical cars, does it matter if one of the cars has a lane that is twice as wide as the other if the narrow lane is wide enough?

So I could just put 3 WD 650 GB 7200RPM 32Mb cache HDD's in the system. 2 of them will run in raid0 for the faster access times for gaming. And the third I want to use as a back up for the system. I just need to know 3 HDD's will be ok, so I can order them.

Access-times will actually be about the same or worse, sequential read/write will be better though...

 

[Tolyngee]

Access-times will actually be about the same or worse, sequential read/write will be better though...

I was about to mention that...

But, if he wanted to run them in RAID-1, he could help access times by running a RAID controller from 3ware or someone with TwinStor tech.

But, after that extra cost, may as well have bought an SSD anyway...