Which harddrive setup would be faster??

[RollWave]

Would two raid-0 SATA 120GB w/ 8MB 7200rpm Cache Seagates or 1 WD Raptor 10000rpm with 36.7gb be faster?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

The Raid setup would be but if you a get a single SCSI 15,000 RPM drive, like the Fujitsu MAS, you will get more speed than both of those setups.

 

[RollWave]

Dizamn just one of those things cost 300 dollars!!!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

How much are 2 120GB SATA drives going to cost you? Since its SATA< I'm guessing atleast $150 each.... so you get $300. This is unless you need the 240GB of space...

 

[RollWave]

well the problem is i need more than 36 gigs. I had a laptop with a 40gig harddrive and I had to constantly backup and delete...sucked. And I dont have the money for 2 15K harddrives and i think that having more memory at 7200 would be better than less memory at 10k..

 

[GnomeCop]

heheh as always, someone asks a question about SATA and someone has to bring in scsi.

You should go with the 2 120gb seagates, they are nice drives, especially if you need the space. Quiet and fairly fast, raid will help.
I doubt the 7200rpm speed will make you sad in the pants.

 

[moonshinemadness]

Can you have two SATA drives without having them setup for raid when they are connected to the mobo (Asus a7n8x deluxe)

 

[GnomeCop]

yes

 

[Regs]

I did not know Raid helps access time or read time but only transfer rates. A higher RPM HDD would increase both access time and read time, would it not?

 

[AgentBehemoth]

Go with 2 Raptors since you can get them for $138 a piece right now on Newegg. 73gb at 5.2ms seek. BooYah. Plenty of space and scsi speeds.

 

[Rotax]

if you just need more storage space, get 1 raptor for the os/programs/vmem type stuff and another ata for "everything else". this is my plan in the long run..maybe even dual raptors aid 0.. still waitin for sata drivers/etc to mature a bit myself.