Mental Block on HDD Choice.

I am having a rough time deciding on a hard drive.

I am in the process of building a new rig however I am stumped on the choices for the hard drives.

First of all I am currently using a Raptor for my needs and have been doing this for awhile but I am growing tired of the lack of freespace.

Now I have been looking into some choices.

The 150 GB Raptor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136012

The Seagate 500 GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288

The Seagate 250GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262

Now with the Raptor I get twice the space that I currently have but I still will fall into the area of limited Freespace. But it is a great performer I assume.

The Seagate 500GB or the 250 both have more space however to get better performance than a raptor RAID would be required....which I have no dealings what so ever in.
I can Purchase 2 of the 250s for 139 or purchase 2 of the 500s for 239.
But the Raptor is 170.

This is my question " If I purchase 2 of the 500 GB Seagates and learn how to put them in a decent Raid Config, would I be getting an all around better deal than just going with the single drive solution?"
And would the 500s out perform the 250s in RAID?

My apologizes for such a stupid question but I can't decide on the best option.

If your nervous about trying a RAID, theres a third option, keep the raptor you have as a boot drive and get a 500gb seagate as storage. Just a suggestion.

well it's the old Raptor with the 8mb cache.
Yet in my stupidity I guess I could use it still...

Now I am really confused Arrrggghhh.

freakdiablo said:

If your nervous about trying a RAID, theres a third option, keep the raptor you have as a boot drive and get a 500gb seagate as storage. Just a suggestion.

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Wedge,

What he said! Don't complicate it, keep it simple. It's the logical solution.