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Speed diffrence between SATA and IDE

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militaryman1010

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Is the cost worth the upgrade to SATA and should i go with one 10,000 rpm drive or 2 regular drives running in raid 5 and 10 i think.....thanks
 
7200 drives in SATA are slightly faster then the same drive in PATA, everything else being equal. The 10K Raptor is very noticably faster, as in WOW, that's fast.

I use the Raptor 74 for my program files and the 7200 drives for general storage. It seems to make a nice balance. I tried a pair of Raptors in RAID, although slightly faster there was little or no WOW factor for the dollars spent.

Luck
 
You won't notice much of a difference switching to SATA from IDE in the same drive. But upgrading to 10,000 rpm makes a big difference. Also, you get to be futureproof.
 
serbiaNem said:
You won't notice much of a difference switching to SATA from IDE in the same drive. But upgrading to 10,000 rpm makes a big difference. Also, you get to be futureproof.
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Futureproof how? By not being to install many applications on a 74gig drive?
 
militaryman1010 said:
Is the cost worth the upgrade to SATA and should i go with one 10,000 rpm drive or 2 regular drives running in raid 5 and 10 i think.....thanks
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One of us is very confused. :confused:

You need at least 3 drives to run RAID5, and 4 to run RAID10

I think you mean RAID1 or RAID0? Those are the ones you can do with 2 drives.

RAID1 is always a good idea, if a little slower on the writing. Full redundancy.

RAID0 is pretty much always a bad idea unless you backup daily or more often. RAID0 is just begging to lose data.
 
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