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which is faster 150 GB d raptor or 2 other drives raid 0

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gitarzan

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Single Raptor 150 GB vs two very good 7200 rpm drives in a raid 0 configuration. Anyone have opinion on which provides better performance in a gaming (and general purpose) system where builder favors performance over anything else? Anyone know of site with comparison tests?
 
There are lots of benchmarks if you care to Google. If my memory serves, two basic SATA drives in RAID 0 should outpace a single Raptor 150GB. However, keep in mind that RAID 0 just about doubles the chances of data corruption and total data loss, both, over a single drive configuration. Then again, Raptors are obscenely expensive. If you have an excess of money to spend on hard drives, I'd go for two large disks in RAID 1.

RAID 0 just seems too risky for me. Maybe if you kept all your data on a third disk you'd be okay, but then your speed is compromised whenever you read or write from it.
 
STR: The RAID0.
Seek time: The Raptor.

Seek time is generally better for 'desktop' performance (loading programs accesses lots of little files), whereas STR is what determines performance when dealing with really, really huge files (as in audio/video editing, or professional photo editing on very large high-resolution images).
 
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