Raid with 2 5400rpm or non- raid with one 7200rpm?

[DaviDaVinci]

I'm trying to compare performance here.

I have a Western Digital Caviar 7200rpm 100 gig hard drive.

I also have 2 identical IBM Deskstar DTTA-351010 10GB 5400rpm hard disks.

I'm using an xp1700, usually use photoshop, video editing programs, ripping dvds, and downloading stuff at the same time.

What would be a faster setup for me?

WD by itself or the 2 IBM's on Raid?

 

[Boonesmi]

the 10gig ibm drives are getting pretty old

i would guess the single 100gb 7200rpm drive would be faster in most every aspect then the 2 older drives in a raid

 

[DaviDaVinci]

any more opinions?

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Yeah ... I got one.

I have heard from many different sources that IDE raid will not really get you too far...(even if you have 2 7200 rpm drives)

You should just go for a single 7200 RPM drive in my opinion.

This was just re-hashed again on TechTV (On my new dish...hehe

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I will say that THE ONLY GOOD benefit I have heard is that of video editing...it will load your videos faster.

But even then, I would go with newer drives....so with what you have here, I would go with the one big drive.

There may be people that would say BS to this, but this in not just my opinion here...I keep hearing the same thing.

I am putting a new MB in my PC (Shuttle Raid/5.1 audio) but wont use the raid at all...just add RAM !!!

Hope this help some....

 

[DaviDaVinci]

i was thinking if i don't use raid, i will still have extra IDE's which i can definitely use. hmm......maybe i'll just use m 10 gigers as backup or something.
Hmm....

 

[Quad]

well
why not try them both at the same time?
connect your 2 wd drives in a raid 0 setup and connect the 100gb drive to a separate channel. see which one works out better

 

[WhiteWizard]

I'm sure that the 100gb 7200Rpm is faster. The RAID would give you a 35% speed increase over one 10gb normal Desktar drive. This 35% is not enought to reach the modern 7200Rmp disk. Not in your dreams!.

 

[DaviDaVinci]

<< well
why not try them both at the same time?
connect your 2 wd drives in a raid 0 setup and connect the 100gb drive to a separate channel. see which one works out better >>



I'm shopping for a new mobo and that's why i was wondering. Don't want to spend extra $ on Raid if it's not up to par....anyhow, i just ordered the Epox special from Newegg and it has no raid so i'm going to use the 100 gigger.

Another question is, any cheap way of adding extra IDE controllers?

i'd like to use those 2 10 giggers as back up drives.

I already have 2 burners and a dvd drive. No more controllers left.

Thanks

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Another question is, any cheap way of adding extra IDE controllers? . Yes..you can get a Promise ATA100 non RAID PCI card for under $50 that will give you 2 more IDE controllers for 4 drives.. Look here

 

[Haden]

Difficult to say, I think I wouldn't go for RAID in such case: you'll have to get controler, there will be additional mess with installing OS and
I think 2xIBM would get just a little better read/write performance (if any), but would clearly loose in seek tests.
If you get Promise card choose U100 TX2 rev01 it has good upgradability path (66Mhz PCI, easy to convert to RAID etc.)