Looking to buy 2 new hard drives to raid....

[Aznguy1872]

I am in need of two hard drives to raid together as my old ones have died on me. As of now I am looking at 2 of these LInk , I am wondering if this is the best buy I can make with the amount it will cost me. Please recommend me to anything you think that would be a better buy for me. Thanks!

 

[ValuedCustomer]

damn! that looks like a good deal. I can't imagine you could do better for the price. :thumbsup: -- which RAID config are you going w/?

 

[Aznguy1872]

Im going with raid 0. Alright, i got one approval! Any more?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
Im going with raid 0. Alright, i got one approval! Any more?

Drives are fine, but RAID0 is probably a waste unless you do nothing but shuffle big files around all day (e.g. high-end video editing). It doesn't make much difference for most desktop tasks.

 

[Aznguy1872]

Ahhh, hrm so you think i should just get one big HD like lets say a 250 gb hard drive?

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Yes, just get a single hard drive or 3+ drives for RAID 5. RAID 0 is okay, but you won't really notice the performance difference. I had 2 7200RPM 8MB SATA drives in RAID 0 to hold me over until I got my 3rd hard drive. Now I'm running 3 drive RAID 5 for redundancy, which IMO is much better than RAID 0.

 

[Aznguy1872]

Another quick question, would you guys go with one Raptor 74 gb and get a 250 gb drive for storage or 2 250 gb hard drives raided at 0?

 

[jondl]

raid0 doubles the possibility of losing your data. If one drive feels like crapping out on you, your data will be lost. I just bought a raptor the other day coming from a diamondmax 10 and i noticed the difference. Its not a BIG difference but its there. A lot faster seeking (ie scanning system whether it be virus scanner or adaware) and you load onto games about 1 second faster! I lost a lot of important data last night from a partitioning crash. I am really looking into get 3+ Hds and doing a raid5. I think the raptor will be a better buy but will cost you more. If you're tight on money, just get a single 16mb ncq sata drive. They perform just as well.

 

[Skeeedunt]

Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
Another quick question, would you guys go with one Raptor 74 gb and get a 250 gb drive for storage or 2 250 gb hard drives raided at 0?

Raptor + 250GB.

Raid 0 is ok, and if you do end up with it, just make double sure you have good backups going. Also, having a seperate drive for storage is probably a good idea for either setup. This could allow you to use, say, 80-100GB drives for the raid 0 and save a little cash. Then when one finally dies and all the data is gone, it was only applications.

 

[Aznguy1872]

True, hrm maybe I will go with one raptor and 1 s50 gb hard drives. But since I dont want to spend so much money I might as well go with 2 250's and not have them raided together. Thanks for all the replies!

 

[Capt Caveman]

FWIW - I just got a raptor also. I was using a RAID 0 set-up as my boot drive and can say that the single raptor is a little slower loading windows and other apps. But I like the idea of the stability that a single enterprise quality drive will provide over my RAID 0 which has given me some issues due to the all of the tweaking/messing around that I do on my system.

And right now, you can pick-up a 74gb raptor for $130 AR at Fry's or Outpost.com

 

[johnnqq]

look on anand's front article of the 7200.9. that drive is usually by far the worst performing and loudest drive. i'm not anti maxtor and i've never owned one, but i trust anand. a 160gb 7200.9 is around 90ish...