I have a motherboard that supports RAID0, but am still running my old EIDE 7200 RPM drive. I want to upgrade to make Windows, gaming and web surfing faster (no video editing). Which is faster for me?
Option 1:
Two 7200 RPM SATA drives (say Seagate, but doesn't really matter) in RAID0 configuration.
Option 2:
One 74 GB Western Digital 10,000 RPM SATA drive (yes, the knew one).
I believe option #2 is faster for what I want, but I want to hear other people's opinions.
As a side bar, I know RAID0 is somewhat dangerous compared to just a single drive, but I'm unclear how dangerous. I would like to hear opinions on that too.....
For those that are curious, here's the guts of my system:
P4 2.4GHz (800 FSB)
ABit IC-7 Motherboard
2x 512MB HyperX low latency PC3200 DDR
Radeon 9800xt with 256MB DDR
thanks in advance,
keith
Option 1:
Two 7200 RPM SATA drives (say Seagate, but doesn't really matter) in RAID0 configuration.
Option 2:
One 74 GB Western Digital 10,000 RPM SATA drive (yes, the knew one).
I believe option #2 is faster for what I want, but I want to hear other people's opinions.
As a side bar, I know RAID0 is somewhat dangerous compared to just a single drive, but I'm unclear how dangerous. I would like to hear opinions on that too.....
For those that are curious, here's the guts of my system:
P4 2.4GHz (800 FSB)
ABit IC-7 Motherboard
2x 512MB HyperX low latency PC3200 DDR
Radeon 9800xt with 256MB DDR
thanks in advance,
keith