The Raptor...

[kiIIxthexIights]

Hey would i get better performance if i got 2x 74GB HD's or 1x 150 GB hd?

 

[atybimf]

I'd just go with 1x150GB and not mess with a RAID setup.

 

[jimbob200521]

without seeing any numbers, id guese that the raided drives would be faster, but not by much. maybe someone has benchmarks of this?

 

[Atheus]

If you go RAID-0 with the 2*74GB it will be slightly less than twice as fast as 1*74GB

 

[the Chase]

Oh boy....

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Atheus
If you go RAID-0 with the 2*74GB it will be slightly less than twice as fast as 1*74GB

That's highly dependent on what you're doing.

I would go single 150.

 

[kiIIxthexIights]

okay thanks. and also, would i get the same performance if i used one raptor for my games and os and a seagate for everything else?

 

[insename2]

its better to have the os on the raptor... games shouldn't matter much

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I wouldn't get another raptor for general storage if that's what your's asking.

 

[imported_Tick]

Raid 5 with 4 16mb cache drives FTW.

 

[kiIIxthexIights]

okay cool. thanks.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: Tick
Raid 5 with 4 16mb cache drives FTW.

why not with 15K SCSI drives?

OP: go with the single raptor (150x1)

 

[Micronaut]

Originally posted by: Atheus
If you go RAID-0 with the 2*74GB it will be slightly less than twice as fast as 1*74GB

That is "not" true.

Dual-Raptors will give you NO real world performance gain at all - and in some cases, less.
(already tested by Anandtech)

It also doubles your chance for drive failure.

Get 2 drives and RAID1 the bastages.

 

[Serch]

In my opinion, for the price of two raptors 74, buy 2 SATAII WD 250GB SE 16Mb cache, raid 0. or get one like I did, and some other time get the second. =)

from what I've been told, if your system is good enough, 1 of them is as fast as 2 raided raptors, or almost there. Imagine it in Raid 0

c ya

 

[Fazzi]

"Bottom line: RAID-0 arrays will win you just about any benchmark, but they'll deliver virtually nothing more than that for real world desktop performance. That's just the cold hard truth."

Are the Final Words of an article in this far away strange site:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2101

Cheers guys!

PS- Just go with the 150 IMHO.

 

[aatf510]

Seeks times are what it matters for desktop uses and overall responsivness.
You would rarely need/benifit from the super high transfer rate from the RAID-0 (the raptors already plenty fast transfer rates to start with), unless you always have to transfer large files from one very faster place to another (e.g another RAID-0 array).