hafa said:
Why spend $45 each on 80 gig drives ($0.56/GB)? Save up a little more and get a couple of
250GB drives, spend per GB ($0.32; 0.571 percent), get twice the cache (16mb) and 3.125 times the storage for only $70 more.
Also, if you're considering RAID 0 for your data, you'll want to have an aggressive backup plan in place, since if one drive goes, you'll lose everything.
If you're just looking at getting a separate drive/subsystem to power your OS and apps, you'll be better off saving up the extra $69 for a single Raptor 74GB, as the lower latency will make a much bigger impact than the higher throughput of a RAID 0 array and will be more reliable.
Thanks for the input, though I don't really need any more storage then 160gigs for apps, games, and the OS and I don't have "$70 more" (I wish
). I was planning on having two of those drives or two WD1600YS 'RE' Drives. As for a backup plan, I have my WD 250GB SATA and then I have another computer with two 80gb ATA drives just for the purpose of storage and backups.
Ack, you've just made me confused. I could save up $70 more dollars, although I'm not sure if I would even use all of that space. I was just looking at drives in my budget range
. Of course, I
might use the extra 500 gigabytes...ohhoho *cries* I don't know what to do!
Raptors = Expensive; though fast
250GB Drives = Excessive + Expensive; though fast
80GB Drives = Not as expensive, somewhat speedy; though premium price.
I like
these, because they offer more than enough space, have 16mb cache, great for RAID, and cheaper then the 250GB drives. Though for $20 more you get 150gb+ more space. But I'm not going to use all of that space, because I have another computer with dual 80GBs for the purpose. So, ~140gb storage on the network, +250GB for more backups/storage, and ~300GB of applications, games and other necessities.
Feedback?
Murdochs_mad said:
If you need extra storage and speed isn't important, consider building a small server with several large perp drives, also a small drive for the os
I have one in my sig it runs 24/7 dishing up mp3's and videos etc, and never causes any probs.
I have something like that, an old computer with dual 80gb drives, just not as fast, and it doesn't have SATA. Plus I don't have any cash for several perp. recording drives. Money money money. Stupid money. Ima kill money. -_-
Thanks for all of your input guys.
MORE: I have $200 right now, and the 2 Seagates and Case I mentioned above fits perfectly into my budget, so unless I get more cash, soon, then I'm probably just going to buy them. Besides, I have a ton of crap on this computer that needs to be backed-up onto the network, then have this 250GB drive formatted for storage once I get the RAID array. Then I'll have backups for the RAID array, and NAS.
I'm good.
NOW: Anyone have an answer to my original question? LOL