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doug1991
02-13-06, 07:41 AM
Hello all, I have a DFI lanparty nf3. I currently have a 80gb maxtor ultra ata 133 8mb HD. This drive is about 2-3 years old. It works pretty well but i want more performance. What drive would you guys recommend?? Also i do alot of gamming, BF2, COD2 so performance is important.

Thanks.
ajrettke
02-13-06, 10:02 AM
price? I mean if it's not an issue I'd recommend the Maxtor Atlas III 15k U320 SCSI drive...but if you don't want to pay 500 bucks for a 74gb drive, you could consider a 74gb raptor for around 150 bucks.
If your after storage space I'd get a 250 or 300gb SATA drive...there are tons to choose from, but it depends on what your looking for....quitness, warranty, performance?
Agashka
02-13-06, 10:02 AM
If your kinda rich you can go with a Raport drive , witch are 10,000rpm and SATA , the bests drive availible out there. Or if you want some great performance and some still great capacity , yesturday i bought a Western Digital 250GB SATA2 (16mb) witch costed me 130$CAD

EDIT: myeah... posted same time
Nilo
02-13-06, 11:35 AM
You can have a 320GB WD SATA2 16MB, for a few more. I would pick that one.
SlntAgent
02-13-06, 12:48 PM
dual 74gb raptors...or atleast one 150gb raptor (new)
steveeb
02-13-06, 12:53 PM
For the money you can't beat the Hitachi 80gb Sata2 drives (about $55 each). Put them in raid and you can have the speed of a Raptor with twice the disk space for less money.
doug1991
02-13-06, 01:12 PM
i know they are alittle pricey but how would these work??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144160
infinitevalence
02-13-06, 01:18 PM
and 2x the chance of failure. I never vote RAID0, Raid10 yes, RAID5/6 yes, never RAID0.

If you dont mind spending the $$ the Raptor 150GB is an awsome buy.
SlntAgent
02-13-06, 01:28 PM
i have 2 of those running in RAID 0....BUT...i only keep my games on it <<gamer...anything important either goes on my 250gig hd and/or my laptop...never put anything important on the raid 0s
doug1991
02-13-06, 01:39 PM
i have 2 of those running in RAID 0....BUT...i only keep my games on it <<gamer...anything important either goes on my 250gig hd and/or my laptop...never put anything important on the raid 0s

thats what i was thinking of doing. Can you Raid just one drive?? Does it make sense or do you need 2??
SlntAgent
02-13-06, 01:41 PM
you would have to ask one of the "smarter" ones...im still learning about RAID 0
doug1991
02-13-06, 01:45 PM
For the money you can't beat the Hitachi 80gb Sata2 drives (about $55 each). Put them in raid and you can have the speed of a Raptor with twice the disk space for less money.

I have heard good things about these. How will the performance be while running games on them??
infinitevalence
02-13-06, 01:46 PM
you MUST have two drives for RAID0, i really would not recomend doing it as it DOUBBLES the chances of drive failure and TOTAL loss of all data.
doug1991
02-13-06, 01:51 PM
you MUST have two drives for RAID0, i really would not recomend doing it as it DOUBBLES the chances of drive failure and TOTAL loss of all data.

I have heard that. But if you have 1 drive on ide with your os on it and 2 drives on a raid 0 for gamming than what are the chances of data loss??
infinitevalence
02-13-06, 01:58 PM
2x.... as long as there is data on there and its a RAID 0 there is 2x the chance.
SlntAgent
02-13-06, 01:58 PM
i play BF2..COD2...RVS...and soon to be lockdown (most of my games have very large very detailed maps to load) im usually 1st or 2nd in the server in all games...but it isnt only my hard drives..its the rest of the equip (see sig)...my old hard drive was causing a bottleneck so i had to get rid of it..

it is my understanding if RAID fails..only the drives attached in that RAID will fail....your other drive shouldnt be affected (someone correct me if i am wrong)
infinitevalence
02-13-06, 02:02 PM
if you install the game on your system drive, then its laoding all the maps of the system drive, so unless you install to the RAID then its not getting any performance bump. If you put it on your RAID then you doubble the chance of looseing all the map files, and game files. Its not a huge deal but it does mean lots of install time.
doug1991
02-13-06, 03:52 PM
if you install the game on your system drive, then its laoding all the maps of the system drive, so unless you install to the RAID then its not getting any performance bump. If you put it on your RAID then you doubble the chance of looseing all the map files, and game files. Its not a huge deal but it does mean lots of install time.

true, but most of the maps are pretty easy to get back though.