HardDrive Question

[jleves]

I had a harddrive failure in my primary machine and its getting RMA'd. Now I have to rebuild the OS and I'm wondering if going with Raptors would be worth it.

I have a E6600 in a ASUS P5W DH Deluxe currently with two Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATA drives (once one gets RMA'd).

I was thinking about adding two 74GB 10k Raptors and striping them for perfomance for the OS and Application drive and then adding a 320GB and making a RAID 5 set for data.

Will I see a big performance increase on OS and Application load with two Raptors in RAID 0 over the two Seagates I had in RAID 0? Any pratical experience with this would be appreciated. It's a pretty substantial investment (2x $135) so the perfomance increase has to be noticeable in everyday use.

 

[airhendrix13]

You will probably see a small decrease in OS load. Overall though, Raptors do show better benchmarks, but when running real world applications you won't see a big enough difference to justify the cost. I recommend putting that money into somethig else.

I hope this helped,

Ryan

 

[yuppiejr]

I think the merits of Raptors / RAID0 have been discussed to death, use the search forum here for the terms RAID0, Raptor or both in combination to see the various debates.

Bottom line - the Raptor has advantages in some situations where access times (random read/writes of non sequential data on the disk) are important, however some of the newer high density platter 7200 RPM drives are going to be as fast or even faster in raw read/copy speeds of sequential data. From a price - performance standpoint in a desktop PC, a fast 7200 RPM drive is the way to go, this one in particular is a racecar:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148262

What mainboard/chipset?