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Replacing raptor 74gb with 2 SATA II drives in RAID

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So I playing Medal of Honor Pacific Assault and going for that nice kill when I noticed a screen freeze and heard my Raptor 74Gb drive do its final functional spins, waiting now for RMA replacement from WD and going to sell it immediately and buy something else
I was thinking getting two 16MB cache 7200 rpm<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://So I playing Medal of Honor Pacific Assault and going for that nice kill when I noticed a screen freeze and heard my Raptor 74Gb drive do its final functional spins, waiting now for RMA replacement from WD and going to sell it immediately and buy something else
I was thinking getting two 16MB cache 7200 rpm SATA II hard drives and put them in RAID 0 but figured out that the setup will become a minimum of$ 220 of cost and 500GB of hdd space which is a waste of storage ( I barely go up to 50GB of usage) but at $200 its not an option so I was thinking of getting two of and puttng them in RAID 0 will that be better than my raptor I beleive it might be the case even though that most reviews show no big deal improvement in SATAII than SATAI but at $ 60 a harddrive you can't resist.

So what everybody think stick to one raptor or two of these babies.">SATA II</a> SATA II hard drives and put them in RAID 0 but figured out that the setup will become a minimum of$ 220 of cost and 500GB of hdd space which is a waste of storage ( I barely go up to 50GB of usage) but at $200 its not an option so I was thinking of getting two of and puttng them in RAID 0 will that be better than my raptor I beleive it might be the case even though that most reviews show no big deal improvement in SATAII than SATAI but at $ 60 a harddrive you can't resist.

So what everybody think stick to one raptor or two of these babies.
 
you had a hdd failure, no biggie, this will happen, that is why we backup. going raid is a dumb idea for your "problem".

i am assuming you bought the raptor for the seek time (10krpm), raid0 with 2x7200rpm will not make that better, in fact it will make it worse.

"I was thinking of getting two of and puttng them in RAID 0 will that be better than my raptor I beleive it might be the case even though that most reviews show no big deal improvement in SATAII than SATAI"

why would you think that when the reviews tell you differently? the reviewers are most likely not lying.

stay with the raptor, learn to backup and accept that as a mechanical device that is moving in tolerances less than the thickness of a human hair very fast things can go bad.
 
You will probably see a huge performance degrade going from Raptor to RAID0

The two configurations are two extreme ends of spectrum
Raptor is extremely quick in random access, while RAID 0 is the slowest (slower than single drive) in random accessing

If you got use to loading small applications with Raptor, you probably would notice performance degrade with RAID 0

RAID 0 however has higher sustained transfer rate than Raptor. But unless you are video editing, you probably won't benefit from it
Therefore you are more likely to see a more performance degrade than actually using RAID 0 configuration


As others have pointed out in numerous other threads, RAID 0 is useless for any desktop enviornment.
 
I guess I was looking at it from the angle of having two drives that each have 8mb of cache, opposed to one drive with 8mb of cache( offcourse I was assuming that having two hdd in RAID 0 would cut my seek time in half theoretically + the benefit of having double the cache or quadrople the cache in case of the 16mb harddrives ) recenty I have upgraded a laptop from a 10gb 5400rpm 2MB to a TOSHIBA 40gb 5400rpm 16mb cache , the reason I upgraded was because I needed more space but the
performance increase was out of this world, I didnt expect the boost I experienced.
 
Nope. Raptors are OVERRATED. Stop thinking like 2 years ago. Today, drives like DiamondMax 10 and 7200.8 can come quite close. Hell, in some tests like REAL LIFE LOADING TESTS, the Raptor loses. Sure it has great synthetic numbers, but since when did those matter in everyday use.
 
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