Raid newbie question

[rhawk79]

Hi,

I've been a SCSI user for the past few years and I currently have the Cheetah 15K.3 drive. Reviews here have shown a new Fujitsu drive that is slightly faster so I was considering selling my 15K.3 and putting that towards two of the Fujitsu's for a Raid 0 setup.

This may be a dumb question, and I may be wrong, but I beleive I read once that in a Raid 0 setup the drives are always spinning at full speed. Since the Fujitsu is louder, I can only imagine what two of them sound like at full throttle. Is this true? If so I'll just keep the 15K.3 and add another since my current drive is almost silent now (enclosed inside a cooler)...Thanks!

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: rhawk79
Hi,

I've been a SCSI user for the past few years and I currently have the Cheetah 15K.3 drive. Reviews here have shown a new Fujitsu drive that is slightly faster so I was considering selling my 15K.3 and putting that towards two of the Fujitsu's for a Raid 0 setup.

This may be a dumb question, and I may be wrong, but I beleive I read once that in a Raid 0 setup the drives are always spinning at full speed. Since the Fujitsu is louder, I can only imagine what two of them sound like at full throttle. Is this true? If so I'll just keep the 15K.3 and add another since my current drive is almost silent now (enclosed inside a cooler)...Thanks!

I have no experience with an SCSI Raid 0 array... i only have IDE and it basically functions like 1 drive. I wish i can afford an SCSI Raid setup.

 

[rhawk79]

nice, thanks, so it's not any louder than using a single drive?

 

[rhawk79]

whoops double post

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: rhawk79
nice, thanks, so it's not any louder than using a single drive?

Actually i meant it acts like a normal drive... so its probably not spinning non-stop if that's what you were asking. It's probably marginally louder... but i'm drawing conclusions from my IDE experience though. Perhaps the morning crowd can answer your query better.