Question for storage Guru

kduwel

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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
 

Venomous

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Single 10K one. Dual 72's with IDE raid 0 arent going to be very impressive unless youre looking at it with a bench marking program. In real life, IDE Raid is a joke.
 

beatle

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Originally posted by: Venomous
Single 10K one. Dual 72's with IDE raid 0 arent going to be very impressive unless youre looking at it with a bench marking program. In real life, IDE Raid is a joke.

Here here! RAID 0 is still held back by the same seek times of one drive. In regards to reliability, you are twice as likely to lose your data, since you are relying on 2 drives. Always backup if you value your data!
 

zephyrprime

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The only thing that can accelerate web surfing is a faster connection and sometimes even that won't help if the server on the website is just plain slow.