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knightc2

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I currently have two WD1200JB 120GB ATA drives that are in a RAID 1 that are big enough and seem to work fine for me. I am building a new system and wonder if upgrading to SATA 2 would be worth it. If I upgrade it would have to be to something relatively inexpensive. I am looking at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 or 7200.10 series drives. Would getting one of these drives be a noticeable upgrade?
 
Originally posted by: knightc2
I currently have two WD1200JB 120GB ATA drives that are in a RAID 1 that are big enough and seem to work fine for me. I am building a new system and wonder if upgrading to SATA 2 would be worth it. If I upgrade it would have to be to something relatively inexpensive. I am looking at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 or 7200.10 series drives. Would getting one of these drives be a noticeable upgrade?
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the 7200.10 will give you a bit better in bechmarks but not much more in real life. i am assuming your 120s are pata - don' t let the sata interface fool you as hdds can't even saturate the ide bus - on a hdd it is a mechanical issue as to their speed limitation not an interface.

the only way to really notice a difference, and it is not that large, would be to go a 10K raptor or something like that, but that is kind of expensie, but if you do i would go the 16MB 74GB version and keep you array as the data drive and the raptor as the os/app/game drive
 
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