74gig raptor, to raid or not to raid

[cheapgoose]

so I've decided to go with a new raptor.

so is it worth going with 2? raid 0.

 

[Twsmit]

I used to have a Raid 0 setup with some regular IDE drivers. Also from what i have read on forums and reviews etc.....


If you have the cash and this is "something extra" to spice up your system go for it. If you actually want a tangible performance increase in everydays applications and games. Upgrade something else.

There are decreases in load times, and file transfers, but it is not "OMG this is fast."

I think a single raptor will suite you well with a secondary IDE drive for storage. Use them in Raid only if you have maxed out everything else and like to spend money.

 

[Shyatic]

Yea I thought about this long and hard and I'm just going with a single SATA drive for my PC, something like a 100GBer if I can find it cheap. I don't need a lot of space because all I have on there is games... I have a file server for holding stuff with 200GB and a HTPC with 200GB so I'm not worried about storage space.

 

[Muadib]

There's a rebate on these, but you must act NOW!!! So tempting......

 

[cheapgoose]

already bought two. just wanted a second opinion before I either open or return one.

 

[oldman420]

you will double the bandwidth of those raptors in a raid 0 my raptors do 100-110 mb/sec as a raid and 50 as single drives.when i put my system on a raid i noticed a huge increase in performance over a 7200 rpm ide drive also the 75 gig raptors are optimized for raid 0 so you will see even better performance than i got

 

[sunase]

Running them seperate can be nice for performance too. I used to run a large file server back in college (on an I2 connection no less ^^). Before I banished the file server dirs from my paging and program files disks I was getting really terrible performance and noticeable lag. This especially applies to IDE/SATA drives since they suck at multiple requests.

So if you run a server, keep P2P stuff open in the background, or work with lots of or large size files moving around a lot, etc and have noticed your system just isn't quick and snappy anymore then splitting your usage across multiple disks can bring it back.

 

[SilentZero]

I started out with one 74gb raptor, then added another one in RAID 0. Kept that setup for abit then went without raid. Raid 0 is always faster with raptors, but to me i just hate chancing it on raid 0 unless I have too. Already seen too many arrays fail to feel comfortable doing so.

 

[AristoV300]

Raptors were born to be in raid 0.

 

[First]

No, you're going to notice virtually no difference between two 74GB Raptors and two 74GB Raptors in RAID 0. Any particular reason you're thinking of RAID 0?

 

[cheapgoose]

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
No, you're going to notice virtually no difference between two 74GB Raptors and two 74GB Raptors in RAID 0. Any particular reason you're thinking of RAID 0?

hey thanks, I think I'm going to return the drive. I got it because it was on sale, kinda like my gf with shoes.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: cheapgoose

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
No, you're going to notice virtually no difference between two 74GB Raptors and two 74GB Raptors in RAID 0. Any particular reason you're thinking of RAID 0?

hey thanks, I think I'm going to return the drive. I got it because it was on sale, kinda like my gf with shoes.

Imagine 10,000rpm shoes! :Q

 

[DKlein]

What's better: 1 10K 78GB HDD or 2 7.2K 36GB HDDs?
Also is there anywhere I can go to find out more about RAID?