Best Hard Drive for a nice Raid Array

[Revx]

I'm getting an abit kr7a-raid, was wondering what you guys would suggest for a nice raid setup, not exactly experienced with raid, would appreciate the input.

 

[Xaotic]

The RAID that I do is all SCSI, but what you are looking for are fast, reliable, preferably cool drives. The drives should be a matched pair(or if you can afford it quad) of brand and model ATA 133 or 100, 7200 rpm and with as low a seek time as you can find. RAID 0, 1 or 0+1 can be implemented easily on that board. My personal preferences are either Maxtor or WD, but lots of people have differing opinions. Remember, you want to use both channels for best preformance.

 

[nikhsub1]

Does that board support ata133? If so I would get 2 Maxtor D740X, raid 0. So 2 40GIG drives become 1 80GIG in raid 0, very fast but, if one drive fails, all data gone. I would then suggest an 80 GIG for backup.

 

[Revx]

I'm not worried about backing up, all my important stuff is always backed up on cd and stuff, i'm just looking for a suggestion of two nice ata100 or ata133 7200 rpm drives, i understand raid that well, i just don't know what hard drive model would be best

 

[Revx]

also i was hearing that the seagate barracuda ataIV's had trouble in raid, is this true? That and how do 120gxp's perform in raid

 

[Xaotic]

I'd probably stay away from the 120s. Fast and quiet, but potential thermal and reliability problems. Plus, the drive time on limitations just announced. Hadn't heard anything on the Barracuda's yet. Most of our older SCSI drives are Cheetahs and they tend to be fairly reliable for their age and use, but we still back up regularly.

 

[Revx]

Well obviously the 120gxps need cooling, which is why the time limit is there, its a no brainer to put a cooler on them, anyways, for scsi, it's nice, but it's not worth the money, scsi is ridiculously expensive.

 

[Revx]

anyone with personal experience

 

[Topo]

Twin WD 1000BB's. They sat on top of the leader board at Storagereview.com forever....If you feal really ambitious go for the special edition drives with 8MB cache buffers...mmmmm

 

[Revx]

yeh, i knew about those, and would do that, if i had the cash lol, that would certainly be sweet

 

[thestramel]

Barracudas are definitely problematic with the KR7A in a RAID configuration. Apparently, they're too fast.

 

[Starfoxer]

id go with a maxtor d740x raid array. very low seek time
and if you get the liquid drives they are VERY quiet.

 

[doer]

After my IBM hdd failed after only 4 months of operation (not to mention I lost 30Gb data), I bought Promise Fast-Trak 66 IDE-raid card and two 40Gb Samsung hdds.

I'm running these Samsungs on a raid-1 array. So I got data recovery if one of them fails. They're quiet, affordable, perform ok in raid-1 array. They're only 5400rpm, but they're not going to fail soon like those IBM-**** hdd:s. They've run 9 months without problems.

If you want serious speed... go for the 7200+rpm drives and raid-0 (which means 2 hdds running, fast speed, but data loss even with 1 hdd failing) If you choose that option, don't wonder if one day all your data is blown away LMAO

 

[Tumbler 00]

id go with a maxtor d740x raid array. very low seek time
and if you get the liquid drives they are VERY quiet.

This is the drive I'm looking at,but I'm not going to put it into Raid array yet.One thing I've learned is you can't tell if it's ball-bearing or fluid by the model name ie./ d740x-L or what-ever it is.You have to use the product# ie./6L060L1,L2,L3, etc....(means fluid bearings)

Where as p/n# 6L040J2,J3,etc.... is still the older ball-bearings.I've only found the fluid one's for the bigger drives like the 80gigs