Help with new hard drive purchase

[CreativeTom]

I have a few drives in mind, I want something real fast...I'm not concerned about how quiet it is, I don't care. I have two raptor 36GB drives right now in a raid0 I am looking for something equivalent to that for the new build...I should have never bought those drives, but now I am stuck with them and I want to get rid of them with my machine when I sell it.

 

[CreativeTom]

BUMP

 

[Varun]

There is nothing that compares with a Raptor other than say the 74GB Raptors.

Your other option is to go SCSI but you never gave a budget.

What do you hate so much about your current drives that makes you want to get something else?

 

[CreativeTom]

Originally posted by: Varun
There is nothing that compares with a Raptor other than say the 74GB Raptors.

Your other option is to go SCSI but you never gave a budget.

What do you hate so much about your current drives that makes you want to get something else?

Well...I don't have enough storage space. I have considered the option of going with another drive for storage purposes, but I was under the impression that the newer SATA II drives and some of the SATA with NCQ are just as quick as the 36GB Raptors, so why not just get a larger one of those drives in place of the Raptors. I am just not real sure on which of these newer drives is the fastest.

 

[kitkat22]

You're correct on the new SATA drives. Basically, just make sure you get a name brand drive like Maxtor or WD, look for the drives with 16MB of cache and the size you want and you should do just fine.

These would be good ones:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144358
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144359

 

[biostud]

The search time is lower on the large SATA drives.

go to www.storagereview.com to check

 

[ionoxx]

For sure you have to go with the Seagate 7200.8 drives. They are ridiculously fast and have NCQ. You can pull off comparable performance to the 74Gb raptor and still have 250Gb or more at your hands

 

[furballi]

Unless you're transferring over 1GB of data, the 10 MB/sec increase of the new Seagate is a mute point. A good PATA drive should average better than 50 MB/sec up to the 50% capacity mark.

 

[anarchyreigns]

Two 500gb Hitachi Deskstar's with SATA II and a 16mb cache in RAID 0 should do you just fine.

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/e...item.8f07a3c3d3a7a12d92b86b31bac4f0a0/