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So, I could use Hitachi drive which is cheaper than WD RE3 series for a RAID setup?

Is your Hitachi regular HD or enterprise HD?

Is it necessary to use WD RE3 series hd to run in RAID? Can I use regular hd for it?

Also, if I don't run in RAID and need the hd to run 24x7, which brand drive is better to do it? Is Hitachi 1TB drive good? able to use it 24/7?

Should I go with WD RE3 series HD or go with cheaper WD Black series HD? I am thinking about running 1TB hds in RAID 10.

i am thinking using the ICH10R onboard RAID on Gigabyte X58A-UD5. not sure on how to use RAID since it will be my first time using it

If I run RAID 10 on X58+ICH10R, is it safe to hot swap the drives if one of the drive fails? If one of the drives fail, how will I know which one? How will the rebuild of the RAID be done? Will it be done in the BIOS or in the Windows, offline or online mode? Thanks!

btw, it will be very light usage ...so that's why i think 2 cores might be enough?

I'm building several workstation for Xenserver. Is Athlon II x2 250 with 12 GB ram enough to run 5 VMs? I mean the processing power. thanks

I currently have a 1TB WD Caviar Black. As it is very loud. @@ If I have 5 of on, i don't know how i can feel @@

what about "Seagate Constellation ST9160511NS 160GB 7200 RPMSeagate Constellation ST9160511NS 160GB 7200 RPM" or "Western Digital Scorpio Black WD1600BJKT 160GB" both in RAID0?

so a raid 0 500GB is faster than Raptor? Also, i will need it on for 24/7 running at least 2 VM. There 3 more workstation will be serving as front server and 2 workstation serve as 2 back server.

I need to have it on 24/7 and have good IOPS. What drive is better? Raptor, or 7.2k drives? Don't have that much money for SSD. Need at least about 120G for each system.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 555BE MB: MSI 760GM-E51 RAM: TEAM DDRIII-1866 CL8 4GB (2GB x 2) HD: WD VelociRaptor 150GB CASE: Silverstone SG02-F POWER: Silverstone Silent 350W CPU Cooler: Thermalright AXP-140 this will be used for workstation

This is for a job but I have never done like this before in school =s