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Just finished a small review on the 7200.11 Raid 0 Setup I completed:
Seagate 7200.11 (Raid 0 Results)
1/18/2008
Author: Dominick V. Strippoli
We recently reviewed the latest drive from Seagate's arsenal: Known as the 7200.11 Barracuda. This drive proved to be an excellent competitor for the well known Western Digital Raptor 150. General performance of the drive was very comparable to the Raptor and ended up about 7% to 15% slower in every day tasks. On the other hand, when working with video/photo editing and larger file operations the Seagate 7200.11 had a very sizable 25% to 30% advantage. As highly requested by our readers, we have put together a very simple review article of the same 7200.11 drive used in a Raid 0 array. We will use the same testing methodology as our previous review and simply add one additional Barracuda to create a Raid 0 array. Once again, we will be using the Western Digital Raptor 150 as a comparison drive. In order to obtain the maximum possible sustained transfer rates on the drives, and the quickest possible access time we have limited our Raid 0 volume to a 50GB size and 128k stripe. This in turn will only use the first 25GB's (and fastest portions) of each drive. The remaining 440GB's or so, for the purpose of taking advantage of the Matrix Storage Controller we have chosen to create a mirrored Raid 1 setup. Since we have already reviewed the single Seagate 7200.11 in a full scale in-depth review, we are simply going to provide this introduction, a small conclusion, and solely hard results from our testing.
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/barracudaraid/
