raid 0 vs WD VelociRaptor

[ronss]

okay.,,,question- there is not doubt that the WD VelociRaptor is probably the fastest single serial ata hard drive in existance, i will not arque that...but would it not be better to just buy a couple of segate 7200.11 320gb seagate barracuda, and run them in raid 0 ....you are looking at $100 vs $300..

 

[masteryoda34]

Average seek times on the Raptor will be far less.

 

[ronss]

okay...so seek times are very important then?

 

[n7]

For the "feel" of snappiness, yes.

Read/write speeds would be better with the RAID-0, but that's not going to be noticeable unless you do lots of large file movements, or during something like game installs.

 

[Nothinman]

Seek times matter more for general usage, straight throughput helps with level loading and such but that's about it. And on top of that you've just doubled your chance of a drive failure.

 

[Bill Brasky]

You would probably benefit more from the reduced access times of the raptor. I have a 74gb version and love it.

 

[aatf510]

Originally posted by: n7
For the "feel" of snappiness, yes.

Read/write speeds would be better with the RAID-0, but that's not going to be noticeable unless you do lots of large file movements, or during something like game installs.

What he said!

 

[ronss]

thanks everyone ....love the input.