Which hard drive setup should I keep?

[anonymouschris]

I have an epox 4g4a+ motherboard. For those of you who are not familiar with this motherboard, this mobo comes with onboard raid. Recently I have been able to get my hands on 2 good hard drive deals.

1. Western Digital 120gb Special Edition (8mb)
2. 2 x Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm (2mb)

Which setup do you think will be more beneficial? Using the single WD hard drive or should I setup the raid with the two maxtors?

 

[Ilmater]

I sure do love WD special editions, but nobody in their right minds could tell you that it'd be faster than the striped Maxtors. Just remember to put any things that you don't want to lose on the WD. If you put anything vital on the Maxtor RAID array and just one of them crashes, you'll lose the data on both.

 

[CraigRT]

I'd go 2 80GB - I would use them as seperate drives though and not use RAID.. you get 40more GB of space this way.
if you'd be RAIDing them, I would just get th 120GB WD SE.

if you are paranoid about data redundancy, get the 2 Maxtors and run them seperate.
one big 120GB drive if it goes down, you lose all.
that's why i like having 2 drives. (or more)

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Yield
I'd go 2 80GB - I would use them as seperate drives though and not use RAID.. you get 40more GB of space this way.

um. no.

you get more or less the same space in a RAID 0 array that you would get with the two drives seperate. I run two 80 GB in RAID 0 and my formatted capacity is 149 GB.

Yield, I suggest you read the FAQ.

 

[thomsbrain]

as for the question, i'd go with the RAID array.

 

[theNEOone]

Trade in your 120 for 2 used 80 SE drives + a little cash. I'm running the 80gig WD SE drives (raid 0) and it is marvelous.

 

[anonymouschris]

any more opinions

 

[thorin]

Why don't you just use all 3 of them?

Thorin

 

[cpals]

The best way to use the three hard drives is to have it like everyone is suggesting.

1. The two 80g hard drives in Raid 0 for running your OS, games, etc...
2. Your 120g for backup to keep sensitive info and anything that you would need if a crash happened.

This is what most people will tell you.