right now i have Maxtor D740X on Raid0 40gb each, i need a new hard drive, i was thinking of the western digital se or the maxtor with ata133 and 8mb cache, does raid make it fast enough worth using it? should i get 2 smaller drives and put it on raid1/0 and should i just buy like a 200gb drive? what do you guys think i should do?
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what hard drive should i get?
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the Maxtor with 8mb or the wd 8mb... but your raid is probably faster... you chould get 2 smaller drives in raid... i would get raptors and an SATA controller if you ahve the money
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Well I have 4 channel RAID controller and 4 80gb 8mb maxtors. in RAID 0 performance is great, in RAID 1/0 the read times are the same but writes are cut in half. So I setup two RAID 0's and use windows XP backup program to backup data every night at 3:00 in the morning. So I get the high speed of RAID 0, with the fault tolerance (more of a hassle, but still fault tolerant) of RAID 1/0.
RAID 0 with 2mb drives will destroy any solo 8mb drive and even a solo raptor. I'd run a RAID 0 array with 2 smaller drives and pickup one bigger drive for backing up, my RAID 0 backup is only cool cuz I can put swap files on it and that speeds things up very minimaly but it still does.
RAID 0 with 2mb drives will destroy any solo 8mb drive and even a solo raptor. I'd run a RAID 0 array with 2 smaller drives and pickup one bigger drive for backing up, my RAID 0 backup is only cool cuz I can put swap files on it and that speeds things up very minimaly but it still does.
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ajrettke said:
how fast is ATA100 Raid with 2mb drives? i know Raptor's alone can be ~150mb/s tranfser.
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I would get the WD 8mb buffer series. The storage space is dependent on your budget.
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azianese said:
0 is preformce (it sends half the data to each drive- i think it splits the packets or somthing), 0/1 or 0+1 (same thing seen em reffered to in both ways) is for preformance and backup.. i think it is just 2 identicle raid 0 arrays, you need 4 hdd's as opposed to 2 for just 0 or 2 for just 1
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Crash is right for RAID 0+1. And yes two 2mb ATA100 drives will outperform a Raptor. Raptors in RAID 0 are awesome in terms of speed but I've heard that they corrupt themselves incredibly easy (someone said 1 week was the longest he was able to go before windows stopped loading on em). RAID 0 is very nice, also in RAID 0 8mb cache has very little effect on performance over 2mb.
If your willing to wait a while i'm sure raptors and other SATA drivers are going to be getting faster, cheaper, and most importantly reliable. Just don't hold your breathe while waiting!
If your willing to wait a while i'm sure raptors and other SATA drivers are going to be getting faster, cheaper, and most importantly reliable. Just don't hold your breathe while waiting!
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raid0 with silicone image controllers are the same as liking s+m and pain.
im serous about it being the most flakiest pc part ive ever had the disservice of trying.
but it can be the fastest if setup with alot of testing.
im gonna do it with 2 raptors in raid0 and they will be here thursday. will most likley have corrupted 3 times before i even get to post here how fast it is.
if it sux as bad as i imagine with corruptions ill buy a highpoint or promise sata raid card.
and yes 2 ide raid0 is faster than a single sata raptor but not by much tho. 2 raptors doing raid0 under the right drivers and setup will give scsi raid a run at half the price.still isnt as fast but close.
im serous about it being the most flakiest pc part ive ever had the disservice of trying.
but it can be the fastest if setup with alot of testing.
im gonna do it with 2 raptors in raid0 and they will be here thursday. will most likley have corrupted 3 times before i even get to post here how fast it is.
if it sux as bad as i imagine with corruptions ill buy a highpoint or promise sata raid card.
and yes 2 ide raid0 is faster than a single sata raptor but not by much tho. 2 raptors doing raid0 under the right drivers and setup will give scsi raid a run at half the price.still isnt as fast but close.
CrashOveride said:
This is the maximum rated speed of the SATA interface- Raptors don't come anywhere near half that transfer rate.
StorageReview.
Edit: sorry, was a bit sarcastic out of frustration, that was uncalled for.
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ide raid0 should bench on sandra normaly about 42000
and correct raptors dont saturate the sata bandwith.
2 raptors in raid0 will come close to saturating it tho.
and im almost possative 2 raptors on a pci sata raid0 card will saturate the pci buss wich maxes at 133mhz
this is why im really wanting this onboard sata controller working.
btw my raptors will be here tomorow!!!!!!!!!!!!
and correct raptors dont saturate the sata bandwith.
2 raptors in raid0 will come close to saturating it tho.
and im almost possative 2 raptors on a pci sata raid0 card will saturate the pci buss wich maxes at 133mhz
this is why im really wanting this onboard sata controller working.
btw my raptors will be here tomorow!!!!!!!!!!!!
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