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stan03

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What kind of performance increase should i expect from Raid 0 from a maxtor 120 gig 8 mb cache.
 
Its pretty nice. I wont go back. I reinstall OSs and move big files alot. I love it. I get about 90mbs in ATTO with a SATA Maxtor 120g and a WD PATA 120g. I think the wd is slowing me down some. I have seen better scores with 2 SATA 120 Maxtors. I think they were around 110mbs. Access times are no were near a Raptors, but I worry about the Mbs more.

I wonder if you would be better with a raid using another 80g SATA though. Would there be a big difference between a 80g sata and a 120 pata in transfer rate?
 
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yup thats my next question
I wonder if you would be better with a raid using another 80g SATA though. Would there be a big difference between a 80g sata and a 120 pata in transfer rate?
 
Doesnt your board support 4 SATAs? I would get an 80g sata so you can try raid0 out. If you like it, then get another 80g sata and add it ( 3 80s in raid0 ). That would give you 240g too, plus be faster than 2 PATAs. I cant really think of a good reason to get a PATA in your case. ( unless you dont have room for 3 hdds )
 
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i thought you can only do raid 0 with an even number of drives.....
 
Nope. Just for fun, I set up a raid0 with 1 WD 36g Raptor, 1 WD 120g PATA, and one Maxtor 120g SATA. The max transfer was nice, but it would be a very poor way to setup a raid0.

If I didnt already have 120g drives, I would do a raid0 with 3 80g maxtors. For the money its gonna be hard get a faster setup with that much space.
 
this question still stands

Would there be a big difference between a 80g sata and a 120 pata in transfer rate?
 
stan03 said:
this question still stands

Would there be a big difference between a 80g sata and a 120 pata in transfer rate?

The 120 gig should be slightly faster on probability because the data is more densely packed, but it depens on a lot of variables. Make, cache, model, number of platters, RPM...
 
um ok both are 8mb cache forget it, here are the two model numbers 6Y080M0 for sata and 6Y120P0 for the 120 gig....
 
Sequential transfer rate, I would guess the 120 Gig will have the edge, but it's all heads and tails. With SATA you have a bit more future-proofing.

In all fairness i'd go for space but it's your computer.
 
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