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What will be faster...

bigrod

bigrod

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2 36.7 gig Raptors in RAID 0

or

1 74 gig Raptor

It's about the same price and very close to the same amount of storage. I need to know because I am configuring a PC for my brother to go to college. I know the 74 gig has a slightly faster seek time, but I don't know if that will overcome the advantage of RAID 0.

Thanks!
 
the RAID0 setup would be faster. But like anyone would tell you, it just isnt worth the risk if something happens to the drives or the OS/partition.

I would do the 74GB drive. I would if i had the cash 😀
 
The maximum transfer rates of the RAID array would be higher... but the access time would be slower. The access time of a RAID array is also slower than if just one of the same drives was operating by itself.

I'd go with the 74 GB drive if I didn't already have a 36 GB Raptor (which I do).
 
I'd go with 1 74 GB Raptor.
RAID-0 increases sequential transfer rates, which most of the time isn't the bottleneck.
 
Okay, thanks for all the opinions.

I was planning on throwing in a secondary standard ATA drive to keep all critical data on, so I'm not too worried about that. However, the technical facts are greatly appreciated.

Can some of you post benchmarks if you have one of the setups?
 
I think that's what we are going to do for him. Got a nice little rig configured for under 1200.
 
Usually seek times are more of a concern than sequential transfer rates. If you are going to shell out for multiple drives, you might as well go 15k rpm scsi and get real speed.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Usually seek times are more of a concern than sequential transfer rates. If you are going to shell out for multiple drives, you might as well go 15k rpm scsi and get real speed.
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SATA is faster however...
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Usually seek times are more of a concern than sequential transfer rates. If you are going to shell out for multiple drives, you might as well go 15k rpm scsi and get real speed.
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the guy's borther is taking it college. do his future roommate a favor by sparing the extra noise from a scsi. 🙂
 
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