Replace 2x 7200.7 with 2x 7200.10??

[oMek]

right now im running 2x 120gig 7200.7 sata/ncq in raid 0

will i notice any speed upgrade by buying 2x 250g 7200.10 and running them in raid 0?

btw the 2x 120s would then move to replace my 5400 60gigs x2 for storage/backup.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Maybe - new drives are generally faster than old ones. But a single Hitachi T7K500 is more space and (I'd wager) better performing. Get that instead.

 

[[LYL]Homer]

Benchmarks may go up a few percent, but real-world difference won't likely be very noticeable.

 

[oMek]

hmm, according to toms hardwear charts the 7200.10 would be 2x faster than the 7200.7s

due to the 8mb 16mb diff i think

 

[DriveEuro]

Is this for an OS drive or a storage drive?

 

[oMek]

will be raid 0 OS boot drive

 

[DriveEuro]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=7200.10&bop=And&Order=PRICE

Try some 80gb seagate 7200.10 drives. 2 of those in Raid0 will be fine. How much storage do you need for your system drive? Personally, I never need more than 20gb or so for my main drive.

 

[oMek]

i went ahead and orderd 2x 250gig 7200.10s the 1 platter drives. with all the downloads/encodeing i do i get up to the max now on my raid 230gigs so the extra space will do me good. and replaceing my 2 60gigs with the 120s i used now for backup storage will also do me really good.

 

[Farva]

hmm, according to toms hardwear charts the 7200.10 would be 2x faster than the 7200.7s

due to the 8mb 16mb diff i think

I wouldn't put much weight on those reviews. Check out Storage Review instead. They have much better tests.