One WD Raptor vs 2 Regular Hard Drives in RAID0

[MBrown]

Which configuration would be faster?

 

[Blain]

The Raptors have the fastest access times of ANY SATA HDs... even RAID'd drives.

This thread should prove to be interesting... :laugh:^:laugh:
Anti-Raptor folks face off against the Anti-RAID crew!

 

[jkresh]

there was a thread like this last week. Basically it dpeends on what you are using it for. If you are worried about booting windows, loading apps and games the access time advantage for the raptor will give it the win. If you are reading/writing large files (ie video recording/editing, especialy uncompressed video) the raid will win. Outside of a raid 6 15,000 rpm sas array there are always tradeoffs in different applications (and even with that there are some things that a ssd (or ssd array) would be faster in). So the question is not which would be faster? but which would be faster for x (where x is the tasks that you are most worried about).

 

[s44]

Get a terabyte Hitachi instead.

 

[Slugbait]

For gaming, it's been known for 3 years that RAID has little to (usually) no performance advantage over a single Raptor...depends on the game. Of course, you won't care cuz you can't perceptually notice the difference.

If you're building a SQL machine or something along those lines, go with RAID.