Harddrives!

[TBSN]

Hey people,
I've been researching hardware for a new computer build, and I've got some questions about harddrive options. I was thinking that a 150gig WD Raptor would be plenty of space to fit the OS, games and programs, but would it be wiser to get two 7200rpm drives, like the seagate barracuda, and put them in Raid 0? Does the high price of the Raptor justify itself?
Any input would be appreciated!

 

[brikis98]

this kind of thing gets asked all the time. read the hard drive section i wrote here.

 

[TBSN]

OK, thanks!

 

[CraKaJaX]

In my experience, when I built my first PC I really wanted RAID 0. I had gotten 2 80GB Maxtor (I know, not the best) hard drives and set them in a RAID 0 array. I was really dissapointed, there was NOTHING to be excited about. You didn't even notice a performance boost, if any. There were more bad things to go with RAID 0 then good. If one drive goes, the other goes. When I reformatted I broke the array and just went with 2 single drives. I don't know if you're going for speed, or capacity, or what. But If I were you I'd go with Seagate drives. Very good reliability, warranty, and pretty cheap for what size you can get. That's just my 2 cents.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
In my experience, when I built my first PC I really wanted RAID 0. I had gotten 2 80GB Maxtor (I know, not the best) hard drives and set them in a RAID 0 array. I was really dissapointed, there was NOTHING to be excited about. You didn't even notice a performance boost, if any. There were more bad things to go with RAID 0 then good. If one drive goes, the other goes. When I reformatted I broke the array and just went with 2 single drives. I don't know if you're going for speed, or capacity, or what. But If I were you I'd go with Seagate drives. Very good reliability, warranty, and pretty cheap for what size you can get. That's just my 2 cents.

yeah, the Seagate 7200.10 16mb cache ~300gb hard drives are probably the best bang for the buck now - very fast, good warranty and not expensive, with $.25/gb deals popping up now and then...

 

[LouPoir]

Originally posted by: brikis98

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
In my experience, when I built my first PC I really wanted RAID 0. I had gotten 2 80GB Maxtor (I know, not the best) hard drives and set them in a RAID 0 array. I was really dissapointed, there was NOTHING to be excited about. You didn't even notice a performance boost, if any. There were more bad things to go with RAID 0 then good. If one drive goes, the other goes. When I reformatted I broke the array and just went with 2 single drives. I don't know if you're going for speed, or capacity, or what. But If I were you I'd go with Seagate drives. Very good reliability, warranty, and pretty cheap for what size you can get. That's just my 2 cents.

yeah, the Seagate 7200.10 16mb cache ~300gb hard drives are probably the best bang for the buck now - very fast, good warranty and not expensive, with $.25/gb deals popping up now and then...

I agree - raid is not worth it and the 10K drives are not worth the money. Tried it all and back to SATA.

IMHO


Lou

 

[TBSN]

Great- Thanks for the advice. I think I'm going to go with this -->>

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) 250GB 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

 

[JBT]

I've got a 7200.10 400GB and a 74GB Raptor. Both are very fast. The .10 is not quite as fast ( VERY close mind you) but obviously has 320 more GB's.
So slight speed or a ton more space? which is the greater advantage?