POLL: Data Storage

[Geomagick]

As I have just ordered a couple new Raptors to replace the ones that I have already I thought - I wonder what everyone else has at the moment.

Please keep this to you main drive rather than additional storage drives.

 

[Gamer X]

Did you check the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB drives before you order. 2 of them in RAID-0 outperform the Raptors in speed.

 

[Geomagick]

I will be running the Raptors in RAID 0. The Seagates in RAID 0 outperform a single raptor according to your link.

I stand by my choice.

 

[GrammatonJP]

Boot 4GB IRAM
Swap 4GB IRAM
Program 74GB Raptor

Storage Maxtor 250s on Adaptec SATA RAID

Other system, 30+ SCSI Drives.

 

[Geomagick]

I'm a little surprised by the lowish numbers of people using RAID given the abundance of RAID controllers on motherboards these days.

 

[thorin]

Sadly I can't reply unless you add an "All of the above" type option. (Multiple systems)

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: George Powell
I'm a little surprised by the lowish numbers of people using RAID given the abundance of RAID controllers on motherboards these days.

For me, and I'm sure many others, RAID 0 just isn't worth the risk. I actually ran RAID 0 for a while, and despite claims that there isn't a difference in speeds for most task, I could easily tell a difference. Especially, after I went back to a non-RAID configuration... everything just loads a bit slower now. BUT the reason I went back is something happened to my RAID controller. It suddenly stopped recognizing the array. It would recognize either drive connected by itself, but when I would connect both it would only see one. I eventually just gave on trying to get to work and just wrote the data off as a loss... I had most of my important data backed-up anyway.

So I think I'll just be avoid RAID 0 from now on. Yeah, things are a bit slower, but I can wait an extra second for a program to load... no big deal. As for other RAID configurations, I simply hate noise and hard drives are noisy. I'll never put more than two drives in a single home PC for this very reason.

 

[pkme2]

Boot 80GB
Slave 200GB
Mobile rail 250GB (2)
Pocket USB 30GB
Flash card readers 12in1

 

[Geomagick]

Originally posted by: thorin
Sadly I can't reply unless you add an "All of the above" type option. (Multiple systems)

Just go for your primary system, that you use at home.

 

[Zero Plasma]

Well, I have my OS on a small partion on a 160 GB Maxtor and then a slave 160 GB Maxtor, both PATA.
Then I have 5x 300 GB SATA drives each mounted in removable trays and one dock in my system so one can be in at once.
You should add an option for that since it's not really internal or external.

 

[roemer21]

MAXTOR all the way!!!!

 

[Geomagick]

Interesting to see that western digital have the lions share of the market so far here, I would have though it would be more even across the big manufaturers

 

[ribbon13]

PATA and SATA are distinguished, but SAS isn't?

I use RAID6.

Onboard softraid is weak sauce, which is why it's not increased adoption any.

 

[Geomagick]

I didn't include SAS individually as I reckoned that overall very few users at home were likely to use SCSI hard drives.

Also not as amny people seem to have gone for Raptors given the number of threads about them in the forums.