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ebeattie

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hi guys. Well, I just want to know from those of you more knowledgeable than I regarding HDD.

I would like to run a raid setup, but while browsing newegg, i noticed that the there are alot of 3.0gb/s HDDS. yet when I look at the raptor, its still 100 bucks for a 36GB drive.

So whats better? transfer speed, or read speed?

I can basically tell that the Raptors are the fastest still on the market, but with SATAII, Im not sure.

thanks for the help.
 
For the price of a 150GB Raptor, you can get a pair of 320GB SATA2 and RAID 0 them. Faster speed and 4x the storage.
 
it depends on your budget really

as far as i'm concerned, but i could be wrong, these are the specs that affect HD performance most directly:

1) RPM
2) cache size
3) transfer speed
4) seek time

all in all, the one single fastest HD is the 10K RPM, 16mb cache RAPTOR!
it comes at a small premium though and like Baked said if you want to save money you could get some larger capacity SATA2 drivers and raid them. however, you can also raid 2x 150GB raptors and really go nuts if you got the money!

i have a SATA compatible mobo and i'm still using IDE though 🙁
 
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