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$100 - (2) 80GB SATA RAID or (1) 250GB SATA Drive

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Howland

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Mainly a gaming system.

A RAID would be faster, but consume more power, have 100GB less space and if one drive failed I would be screwed.

Is the extra speed worth it?

Assume $100 is all I have. There is a Western Digital 250GB SATA 16MB drive at ZZF that I am leaning toward.
 
You are the only one that could say if it was worth it... but in my case I would always go for faster because I have multiple drives on different controllers so I can place complete backups of my master drives on other ones and be back to work in about 15 minutes. If you actually think that you can fill 200+gigs then go with the bigger drive. I barely get to 80gigs with programs and OS but 300+ with movies, mp3s and so on...
 
Originally posted by: Howland
Mainly a gaming system.

A RAID would be faster, but consume more power, have 100GB less space and if one drive failed I would be screwed.

Is the extra speed worth it?

Assume $100 is all I have. There is a Western Digital 250GB SATA 16MB drive at ZZF that I am leaning toward.
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I'd definatly go with the WD 250GB 16mb cache drive. I have one myself, and very happy with it.
 
250 would be faster for everything but sequential read/write. How often do you do gigabyte file editing on your computer?

For gaming it would be slower to get the RAID.
 
No, the extra speed isn't worth it, mainly b/c there's barely any difference in speed (larger platters and double cash narrow the gap significantly) and the added risk of data loss (double the chance with 2 drives) makes it IMO not worth it.
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Originally posted by: Howland
Mainly a gaming system.

A RAID would be faster, but consume more power, have 100GB less space and if one drive failed I would be screwed.

Is the extra speed worth it?

Assume $100 is all I have. There is a Western Digital 250GB SATA 16MB drive at ZZF that I am leaning toward.
Click to expand...

I'd definatly go with the WD 250GB 16mb cache drive. I have one myself, and very happy with it.
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Same drive here as well. One of the best drives for the price.

 
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