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RAID 0 question

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specialk12882

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I have two WD 74 gig raptor drives. Which would be faster? Putting them into a RAID 0 array and making two logical drives, or leaving them as is and moving my pagefile to my nonsystem drive? I've heard good things about both.
 
Not a ton faster for single user use. Sometimes slower because on increased seek times. Plus look at this forum and how many posts are about getting an RMA on a Raptor. If anything I'd mirror them.
 
Raid 0 will always be faster, since it is writing half the data to each drive. The downside is that if one drive fails you will lose the data on both drives. The raptors are fast enough as they are, unless you are doing video encoding etc. I could see the need to do so.

~ Novensu
 
this is my personal experience, so please don't go quote some random article trying to prove how unbelievably wrong i might actually be... BUT

i have 2 WD 36 gig Raptors. Initially I only had one, and it was fast. Not so much noticably when file browsing or general day-to-day stuff, but loading games (especially EQ2) it beat the crap out of my old 80 gig maxtor IDE drive. I ended up getting a pretty good deal on a second one, so i threw it into RAID 0, and it was noticably faster in literally everything that involved disk usage. Sure, there's the chance of a drive failing which would render all the data on both drives useless, but that's why i have an external maxtor running incremental backups twice a week...
 
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