Looking for best 2 250GB HDD's to Raid 0 = 500GB

[JASANITY]

Looking to put 500GB's raided 0 in my computer. What is the best performing and stable 250GB HDD to do this? How many hours of DTV can I record from my tuner? I'm looking to store seasons of shows.

-Jason

 

[essasin]

SATA or PATA?

 

[JASANITY]

SATA

 

[Kakumba]

Well, the Seagate 7200.9 250 gig should do you quite nicely. Seagate are a very good brand, and this is a recent version, SATA. How many hours, I dont know, I dont do recording. but yeah, my vote goes to a Seagate Barracuda, or a WD Caviar.

 

[JASANITY]

whats the difference between seagate and wd's hard drives?

 

[Kakumba]

real differences? cant think of any, unless the Caviars have 16 Mb cache. just compare the seek times and cache on them, also warranties (seagate is 5 years)

otherwise, which one is cheaper? they are both very good from what I have read, and other people recommending.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

seagate is good the 7200.9 are good. for raid id recomend going a little cheeper(i think you can get wd cheeper) for the price and if you have no budget 7200.9

 

[imported_michealo]

why raid0?

obviously you intend to store a large amount of data with 500GB storage space that can all dissapear in a blink of an eye

 

[Azndude51]

I heard the WD2500KS drives are good.

 

[AsianriceX]

I know newegg has some 250GB WD drives for ~100 bucks each. Look for the RE Caviar series instead of the SE Caviar series if you're going to use RAID.

16MB cache, 5-year warranty, some RAID feature WD uses specifically on the RE series = Winnar

I've never used those drives before, so that that into account.

 

[Pens1566]

WD SATA have the legacy Molex power connectors. I like those better than the flimsy little SATA power connectors.

 

[sgtBaker]

I have 2 hitachi deskstar t7k250 in raid 0 and couldn't be happier.Check out the reviews on newegg. you have download a utility from hitachi website to make sure sata2 is enabled.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822145087

 

[Zepper]

As mentioned above, why use RAID-0 for just storage of massive data? Use JBOD mode instead of RAID-0. This will give you the large space without the risk of striping.

As far as drives, I just got the cheapest Hitachi SATA drive, the 7K80. If its bigger brothers are anywhere near as good, then be sure to check them out. They are always on pretty good sales every weekend in the papers. Otherwise I'd buy Seagate.

.bh.

 

[Kakumba]

whats the point of JBOD? Near as I can tell, if a drive fails, you still lose your array, so you may as well get the extra performance

 

[Zepper]

I didn't say it was perfect, just safer than striped. The drives are still separate drives it's just that Win is fooled into seeing them as one volume. The OP wants a big drive. I just suggested that he doesn't need the added risk of striping. The files won't be chopped up in bits and pieces like they would be on striped volumes. With large sequential writes like the OP wants to do, it is likely only one file will be broken if something happens, not all of them.

.bh.

 

[Kakumba]

Right, I see. As I said, I was of the understanding that if a drive fails, the array is gone, just like in 0, but that seems cool.