New Western Digital SATA 250GB Drive

[borgmang]

Anybody have any information on this new SATA Drive (Western Digital 250GB SATA WD2500JD 7,200 RPM 8MB Hard Drive)? I'd like feedback for the best performance for a 3 drive system using either 2 raptors as raid 0, and this drive as single b/u, or possibly using 1 raptor and one or 2 of the WD2500JD as singel drives w/ no raid.

I do heavy graphic work, heavy gaming, and occasional video.

 

[borgmang]

Bump

 

[Futher]

I have two raided 120 gig drives, but I think a 250 would be a lot easier to handle. Less space as well. What's there to say about a 7200 RPM hard drive? It's big and it's fairly fast.... and it's Western Digital. What more could you want?

 

[tallman45]

Your heavy gaming will not take advantage of the Raid. If you value super fast boot time and loading of games then go with the single Raptor for OS/Apps, then put the 2 other IDE drives on independant channels and partion the first 7-10gb for paging and scratch files. Use the remainder of the drives for storage/archive and a ghost backup of the Raptor OS/Apps.

 

[borgmang]

So put ALL APPS, including game apps as well on the raptor? THen partion drive #2 for about 10 gb to put paging scratch files, then drive #2 (remaining space) and drive #3 become storage/archive drives. Excuse my lack of knowledge but what are the paging and scratch files, and where are they located and how do you put them on a specific drive.

Also, what is a ghost backup, and how do you do this? Would you also put all your data/saved games, files, etc. on either drive 2 or drive 3?

Also, did anybody notice that the NEW WD drive is SATA(Serial) not IDE? I was hoping for some feedback on this WD2500JD drive.

Thanks to all in advance

 

[lameaway]

You pay such a huge premium for having both the very highest capacity and the very newest interface on that drive that it's simply not a good buy right now, much like the P4 3.2c or GFX 5900. I've got a reply to your question in the other thread, involving commodity drives and an enterprise-level RAID controller, check that out.