best ide drives for raid 0

[jonah255]

whadda think? maxtor, western digital, seagate, ibm?

 

[John]

IBM 75GXP 45GB 😉

 

[XBoxLPU]

seagate

 

[jonah255]

ill prolly be going 2 x 60, or 2 x 80. im pretty poor.

 

[stev0]

go with 2 WD SE 80 gigs, the drives with 8meg cache 🙂

edit: 111.00 from newegg.com

 

[Alex]

wd special edition drives

 

[doraemonxo]

mmm...ibm have a bad reputation for HD. maybe that's why they don't make them anymore? Go with the WD SE 8mb buffer. Those will have the 3 yr warranty, as opposed to the regular ones that only have 1 year now.

 

[Sid59]

NOT IBM

 

[Pariah]

IBM have the best track record for ATA RAID performance, the 75GXP issues not withstanding. Don't let all the IBM hatred here fool you. The 120GXP's do not suffer from the same issues of the 75GXP. The 180GXP has already hit the market in Japan, and should be a stellar performer. If you can wait a bit, wait for them. WD's perform quite poorly in RAID arrays. The Seagate Barracuda's have had a number of reported RAID issues.

 

[teqwiz]

Originally posted by: stev0
go with 2 WD SE 80 gigs, the drives with 8meg cache 🙂

edit: 111.00 from newegg.com

I just set this up on my system. They are

HERE. I bought them last week w/ $40 rebate per HDD. $89.99 after mail-in. So sweet! PCMARK2001 reports HDD @ 1390! best ever. I think that the rebate deal is over, but look around. They are smokin.

I use Executive Software Diskkeeper on Continuously and they are constantly defraged. seek and latency is hardly noticeable at all.😎

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: John
IBM 75GXP 45GB 😉

I'm running 2 60GXPs in RAID 0. I guess I'm just a sucker for punishment😉 I've already had one of the drives go bad once. Hopefully I'll get the array replaced before another one bites the dust.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Pariah
IBM have the best track record for ATA RAID performance, the 75GXP issues not withstanding. Don't let all the IBM hatred here fool you. The 120GXP's do not suffer from the same issues of the 75GXP. The 180GXP has already hit the market in Japan, and should be a stellar performer. If you can wait a bit, wait for them. WD's perform quite poorly in RAID arrays. The Seagate Barracuda's have had a number of reported RAID issues.

Excellent summary.

 

[CurtCold]

Real Deal Review

Check this out, the IBM's are great in Raid 0, I have 2x120gxp 60GB in Raid 0, and they haul. I would get 512MB of Ram though, it really helps the performance.

 

[jonah255]

i have 512 mb of pc2700 ddr

 

[tbates757]

there is no question that Western Digital Special Edition drives own the competition. IBM 120GXP are blazing fast as well, but it can't keep up with the 8Mb cache of the WD's =D

 

[jbond04]

Originally posted by: teqwiz

PCMARK2001 reports HDD @ 1390!

My 2 40GB IBM 120GXP's running on a Promise Fasttrak100 IDE RAID controller get 1671 PCMarks... Not trying to burst your bubble or anything...just trying to illustrate that IBM 120GXP's are excellent for RAID arrays.

Originally posted by: tbates757

there is no question that Western Digital Special Edition drives own the competition. IBM 120GXP are blazing fast as well, but it can't keep up with the 8Mb cache of the WD's =D

See above...

And as for IBM's questionable reliability, those problems have obviously been fixed. How many people around here are complaining about their dead 120GXP's? I bet you I could find more WD SE complaints on this board.

 

[CurtCold]

My 2 40GB IBM 120GXP's running on a Promise Fasttrak100 IDE RAID controller get 1671 PCMarks... Not trying to burst your bubble or anything...just trying to illustrate that IBM 120GXP's are excellent for RAID arrays.

Bump!

2x120gxp 60GB with promise fastrack.....

 

[aka1nas]

I have 2 40GB 60GXPs in RAID 0, performance is excellent. The DeathStar issue is a concern, and I went through 4 drives before these current two. What I have concluded is that generally, the drives die in the first two months if they are going to suffer the "click of death" syndrome and they exhibit this symptom early on. If you go with IBMs, make sure to give them good cooling(I have hard drive coolers on each drive from newegg and I made an effort to clean up the wiring in my case to improve airflow.), as they are relatively hot running drives compared to similar Maxtors and Western Digitals. I would also consider dumping your OS on a seperate drive and putting non-essential stuff on the RAID array(I have a 30GB Seagate for Linux and Windows XP, and use the RAID array for games, photoshop/video editing apps, video and mp3s).

OTOH, if you want the absolute best drives out right now, my money would be on the WD special edition drives also. I still think that a seperate OS drive isn't a bad idea if you are concerned with the safety of your data, though.

 

[Fallengod]

Originally posted by: John
IBM 75GXP 45GB 😉

I hope you were being sarcastic john. 75GXP is the one drive you DONT want in a raid or any other setup.


Anyways, I have a question for anybody. Anyone know if they are planning to make Ata133 drives with 8mb cache? I just bought a WD special ed. but I havnt opened it yet cause I know seagate, maxtor and ibm are coming out with 8mb versions and I wanted to wait. Any of them going to be ata133 or higher?

 

[Fallengod]

Originally posted by: stev0
go with 2 WD SE 80 gigs, the drives with 8meg cache 🙂

edit: 111.00 from newegg.com

Dont get it there. COMPUSA has them for $80 after a mail-in rebate. 10/6 - 10/14 You can even get them for $40 if the CSR doesnt know what they are doing. If you can get it out the store for the advertised price of $79.99, they you got it for $40. i got 2 for $80 after MIR. 🙂

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: modempower

Originally posted by: John
IBM 75GXP 45GB 😉

I hope you were being sarcastic john. 75GXP is the one drive you DONT want in a raid or any other setup.


Anyways, I have a question for anybody. Anyone know if they are planning to make Ata133 drives with 8mb cache? I just bought a WD special ed. but I havnt opened it yet cause I know seagate, maxtor and ibm are coming out with 8mb versions and I wanted to wait. Any of them going to be ata133 or higher?

ATA133 grants you nothing perf-wise, even for a RAID setup. Maxtor went that way because normal ATA-100 controllers can't address more than 128GB due to LBA limitations. The larger WDs have some new LBA scheme that allows higher addressing.(think they bundle their own controller with those larger drives, just as Maxtor bundles ata-133 controllers on their 160GB drive.) Maxtor is the only one going ata-133 AFAIK, but it's pretty much useless other than for the capacity increase.

 

[teqwiz]

Originally posted by: jbond04

Originally posted by: teqwiz

PCMARK2001 reports HDD @ 1390!

My 2 40GB IBM 120GXP's running on a Promise Fasttrak100 IDE RAID controller get 1671 PCMarks... Not trying to burst your bubble or anything...just trying to illustrate that IBM 120GXP's are excellent for RAID arrays.

Originally posted by: tbates757

there is no question that Western Digital Special Edition drives own the competition. IBM 120GXP are blazing fast as well, but it can't keep up with the 8Mb cache of the WD's =D

See above...

And as for IBM's questionable reliability, those problems have obviously been fixed. How many people around here are complaining about their dead 120GXP's? I bet you I could find more WD SE complaints on this board.

No prob. Great Score. I have Hipoint Raid integrated on my board, SOYO Dragon. I thought that the KT 400 would have used the promise chip instead. Would have been a greay combo! I think that the promise chip is a much better and faster setup. IBMs are great HDDs, I just dig my WDs.

🙂

 

[Fallengod]

Whats the best Raid 0, 1 card in terms of stability and performance and price...I dont know what to get. I see at some places a raid card is like $100. No way im paying $100 for a raid card.

 

[Ilmater]

I don't care where you get them, the WD800JBs are absolutely the best drives to use in a RAID setup... this side of SCSI that is.

NO! NOBODY IS GOING TO USE ATA133 EXCEPT MAXTOR!! It's just a marketing gimmick to sell more drives. Everyone else is just going to wait for Serial ATA, which is already appearing on mobos and will be in drives by January. It has a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 150MB/sec (that would be the equivalent of ATA150 if you're not up on the terminology).

Stupid Maxtor.

 

[LED]

I got similar results with both IBM's and the WD's...

Serial ATA will prolly be best although with a PCI RAID Card it's Bandwith will be limited and have to share with other devices.