best hard drive setup

[welrope9]

I am building my first computer. I have already purchased a msi 875 neo fis2r, p4 2.6 800mhz, 512mb of corsair xms 3500, radeon 9700 aiw, and audigy 2 platinum. I will be using this computer mostly for gaming, and will be overclocking"hopefully". I need some advice on the choice and setup of my hdd's. I would like to raid 2 drives and have 1 for os. My mb has a promise raid controller and also raid 0 on chipset. which is better to use. is raid 1 or 0 faster. i have read about the sata 10.000 rpm drives can these run on raid? any advice appreciated

 

[Nocturnal]

Western Digital 36 gig SATA 10k rpm Raptor HDD.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Western Digital 36 gig SATA 10k rpm Raptor HDD.

 

[welrope9]

bump

 

[billyjak]

Western Digital 36 gig SATA 10k rpm Raptor HDD
I have these drives and they're fast
Hook them up to Raid 0 on the sata ports
Raid 1 will back up yor data if one fails but you'll only get 1 drive
Raid 0 you get 2 but not as secure as raid 1

I went with Raid 0
I back up my important data on another 120gig drive, so I'm not conerned about the raid breaking.
Always run an extra drive if you run raid 0 to back up to
The Raptors are nice drives with a 5 year warrenty

You could also get 2 IDE say 120gigs and run them on the promice controller in raid 1 for your data
But if your into speed the Raptors are hard to beat

 

[MDE]

2 Raptors in RAID0 and a huge IDE drive for storage (if needed) and you're in hard drive heaven.

 

[welrope9]

thanks for the advice i believe i will go with the 2 raptors and 1 120 gig. has anyone heard if the bugs have been worked out with the neo 875 bios yet? also what would be the best hsf for my board( neo 875) I have a thermaltake xaser III 2000a casewith the seven case fans? I am stuck between the slk900 and zalman 7000cu or alcu.

 

[StraightPipe]

Originally posted by: welrope9
I am building my first computer. I have already purchased a msi 875 neo fis2r, p4 2.6 800mhz, 512mb of corsair xms 3500, radeon 9700 aiw, and audigy 2 platinum. I will be using this computer mostly for gaming, and will be overclocking"hopefully". I need some advice on the choice and setup of my hdd's. I would like to raid 2 drives and have 1 for os. My mb has a promise raid controller and also raid 0 on chipset. which is better to use. is raid 1 or 0 faster. i have read about the sata 10.000 rpm drives can these run on raid? any advice appreciated

RAID0- writes every other stripe of data on each drive,
the idea is to strap 2 hard drives together so they can
go 2 times as fast (they dont actually perform THAT
fast). if you lose 1 drive than you lose all info on
both drives(ie: have to reformat)
50G+50G=100G

RAID1- writes exact same thing on 2 drives. gives you a
copy incase one drive crashes. (if partition is damaged
again it will probly happen on both drives. dsnt
improve performance, but gives you a backup.
50G+50G=50G

RAID5-takes 3 drives. it's like best of both worlds.
stripes of data rotate on 2 drives and 3rd gets a
"parity note" it allows you to take data from any 2
drives and recreate the data on the 3rd.
50G+50G+50G=100G

you could also just set up the drive independent of
each other and you wouldnt have to worry about
anything, you get regular performance, and no backup,
will show as 2 drives
50G+50G= 2 50G drives

RAID 1+0 takes 4 drives. it's exacly like it sounds.
take 2 drives in raid 0 for performance, and uses 2
more drives to make a copy of each to give you back up.
50Gx4 = 100G

 

[welrope9]

thanks for the info on the raid really clears alot up so i would be fine with 2 sata 10000 rpm drives on raid 0 and 1 160 gig drive to back up to.
also would you put the os on the single drive or on the 2 drives in raid

 

[randumb]

Raptors are nice. SCSI is better (if you have the money).

 

[OmegaRedd]

IF you want speed and space the maxtor serial drives in raid 0 are hard to beat. I back up my files to a usb 2.0 external hard drive. Also water cooling is the way to go for temps and noise.😎