Which way would you go?

[nodle]

So I have laying around here 2x 500gig wd5000aaks drives. I also have 1x 300gig wd velociraptor. Should I go raid 0 with the 2x 500gig drives. Or use the single velociraptor drive? Which do you think would be faster?

 

[nxgravity]

I'm comparing my WD Blue RAID 0 setup with VelociRaptor benchmarks I'm finding online and the VelociRaptor is actually showing to be the faster setup. Might be my controller or setup in general, but the VelociRaptor looks to be the winner in my tests (assuming I can trust the online benchmarks I have been reading).

 

[nodle]

I'm comparing my WD Blue RAID 0 setup with VelociRaptor benchmarks I'm finding online and the VelociRaptor is actually showing to be the faster setup. Might be my controller or setup in general, but the VelociRaptor looks to be the winner in my tests (assuming I can trust the online benchmarks I have been reading).

Ya that's what I am seeing too. Guess the 10,000rpm really does come in handy.

 

[Lateralus]

The 500GB drives in RAID 0 won't be able to touch the VR in terms of access time and responsiveness. Plus there are less points of failure with a single drive; the RAID 0 setup means twice the controllers, twice the platters, twice the heads, etc...basically doubling the chance of something failing and taking out all of your data. I'd use the VR and back it up to one of the 500's (or a RAID array if you like) if there is important data on there or you want to get back up and running more quickly should the OS drive fail.