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Raptors?

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Limp Gawd
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New to the raid scene. Any recomendations on drives? Whats up with those Raptors? Two 36gigs would fit my needs nicely.
 
The 74 GB version has better technology and performs as well as two 36's in RAID.
 
Originally posted by theTIK
The 74 GB version has better technology and performs as well as two 36's in RAID.
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Have anything to back this up? I'm about to buy two 37s, and if I can have the same performance for less money, and in one drive, I'm doing it. This seems to good to be true. Why does anyone buy two 37s if a 74 is just as good?
 
I don't think he was talking about getting (1) 74 vs (2) 37's just that the 74's have newer tech so getting (2) of them is better than getting (2) 37's
 
No, I'm pretty sure he meant that 1 74 is the equivalent of two 36s in RAID; which, as we know, is blatant misinformation.

The 74 definitely has better technology, and is a bit faster, but definitely not as fast as two 36s in RAID. Granted, it's still very fast for a desktop hard drive, but if all you care about is speed, then the 36s in RAID would outperform the 74. And 74s in RAID would outperform all of the above.
 
It's going to depend on what you are doing with your computer. Most people get Raid 0 automatically thinking it will make their computers fly when in actuality they do very little that would benefit from a Raid 0 array. For most of the common PC uses the single 74GB Raptor would be a better choice, not to mention much more reliable.
 
How about for save/load of saved games, and BT/ed2k hashes? And not to mention windows load time and defragmentation time. What would be faster, one 74gb raptor or two 37s in RAID 0?
 
it is an option but then you would have JBOD and not a RAID and why is a single drive more reliable than a RAID? you can't say that just because you have 2 drives are twice as likely to have them go bad because statistacly speaking if there is a failure rate of 1 in 10,000 and you have 2 of their drives then you have 2 chances in 10,000 of getting a bad drive which is different than 1 in 5,000...do you run more of a risk with a RAID 0 than a single disk...yes but I don't think it is that much of a difference
 
Originally posted by gigglebyte
2 chances in 10,000 of getting a bad drive which is different than 1 in 5,000
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I'm going to use them in RAID, but this reasoning seems flawed to me.

2/10000 = 1/5000 last time I checked

It is truly double the failure rate because you now have two drives that are equaly likely to fail :)
 
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