Veloraptor Raid0?

[vroom_skies]

Hey there you guys,
Right now I have a WD1500HLFS and the opportunity has risen for me to get a second one used for a decent price ($55). I've been having some trouble finding bench marks/ comparisons between two of these drives in raid0 vs an ssd.

Do you think this would be a worthwhile investment or?

Thanks

 

[drescherjm]

No hard drive in raid0 will have the access time of an ssd. They can have the STR but the usefulness of that depends on how much you read and write large files sequentially. Remember that an ssd has access times of less than 0.2 ms while a velociraptor in raid 0 will have 20+ times that.

 

[drescherjm]

Do you think this would be a worthwhile investment or?

Maybe. It's not going to be a leap in performance but the price is not bad.. I expect 0 to 30% performance gain in most applications by using the hard drive raid0.

 

[vroom_skies]

Thanks for the input you two. I guess when it comes down to it access time is the one thing I want faster. I'm ok with the STR as of now and that's really all another raptor would help with.

Looks like I'll just save up for another SSD.