hard drive options

[Feep]

I want to get a HD that is faster than the 7200 rpm pata i am using now. What is the best option for speed vs. cost?

 

[Sheriff]

Might help if you let us know the Model n Make of your current HD...currently 7200RPM is tops for PATA and if you have SATA then only Raptors go @ higher (10K RPM's)...you could consider SCSI

 

[CraigRT]

speed/storage/cost champ would probably be a 7200 8MB cache either PATA or SATA, preferably a Seagate Barracuda... the Raptor's are much smaller in storage size, much more expensive, available in SATA only, and not that much faster than anything else (regular 8meg cache drives)

I run a pair of 120GB 7200.7's and I love them to death

 

[Feep]

what about raid options? I currently have a 120 GB maxtor and a 60 GB WD, both 7200 rpm.

 

[gwai lo]

RAID works best for same size hard drives...at least I know RAID 0 does...

 

[Feep]

i know, i meant buy two new drvies to raid them. Is there much of a speed increase?

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Feep
i know, i meant buy two new drvies to raid them. Is there much of a speed increase?

See this thread LINK

Fern

 

[Machine350]

WD Raptor would be a good upgrade

 

[Feep]

Okay, I deceided that I want to drives for raid zero. I know that thread Fern linked to concluded that it isnt worth it, but the people i know that have used RAID all say that it is a noticeable improvement.
I cant really afford two of the raptors though, any other suggestions?

 

[KoolDrew]

I would go with 2 Seagate Barracudas. They are like $120 and 200GB in size. Run 2 of those in RAID-0 for a total of 400GB and the added performance. I am getting the same setup

 

[Feep]

anyone know what the size max is for the onboard promise controller on the asus k8v deluxe se?

 

[Frew]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I would go with 2 Seagate Barracudas. They are like $120 and 200GB in size. Run 2 of those in RAID-0 for a total of 400GB and the added performance. I am getting the same setup

When you raid 0 you dont get both the drives storage. You only get the smallest drive worth of disk space. In your case 200gb.

 

[Feep]

yes, you do get the total. Unless they are different sizes. In that cases it would be like this

80 gb raid 0 with a 120 gb

you get 80 + 80 = 160 total, not 200

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: LeadFrog

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I would go with 2 Seagate Barracudas. They are like $120 and 200GB in size. Run 2 of those in RAID-0 for a total of 400GB and the added performance. I am getting the same setup

When you raid 0 you dont get both the drives storage. You only get the smallest drive worth of disk space. In your case 200gb.

if they are the same size you do get the total. IF they are different sizes then it would be the smallest drives size multiplied by 2. So it would be 400GB since both are 200GB...

 

[Feep]

like i said...

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Feep
like i said...

sorry I didn't see you post as I did not refresh the page...