Replacement for 2x36GB Raptors (RAID-0)???

Ali195 · 1 Feb 2009 at 14:18

Been running two of these 36GB raptors in RAID-0 for years now but i need more space (damn FSX).

Now i like my RAID-0 setup but ive not kept up todate on HDD's in ages so not sure what to get.

2x500GB sounds nice but performace wise i may be worse off.

Any good drives with fast access times.
2xdrives for the RAID-0
£180 budget

d_brennen · 1 Feb 2009 at 14:36

For that moola I'd go for 2 x 1TB Samsung Spinoint F1s for about £160 give or take. Very fast, though not sure if It'd match two raptors speed wise. The difference would hardly be epic.

Or single SSD?

Atom · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:01

Why 1TB?

Surely 2 X 320gb F1 are more suitable..

jbloggs · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:19

Atom said:
Why 1TB?

Surely 2 X 320gb F1 are more suitable..

Or (2x) some other 320GB (single platter) HDD....

VaderDSL · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:23

I'll let you know tomorrow hopefully how the single platter 500gb 7200.12's perform, two of those in Raid-0 should be nice, somehow they have very nice sustained write speeds on them.

fross · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:24

For £180 you could get 3 750G drives - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-054-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940 and RAID 5 them?

RAID 0 is all well and good until something breaks. Otherwise I recommend the 1TB spinpoint drives, nice and quiet and good reviews, and 2 for £160.

jbloggs · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:26

VaderDSL said:
I'll let you know tomorrow hopefully how the single platter 500gb 7200.12's perform, two of those in Raid-0 should be nice, somehow they have very nice sustained write speeds on them.

This will be interesting.......

VaderDSL · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:27

jbloggs said:
This will be interesting.......

I'll only have 1 tomorrow sadly, will possibly buy another for RAID later on in the week if I am impressed by the first.

Ali195 · 1 Feb 2009 at 17:14

SAS HDD on SATA? ...some of those are 1500RPM.

d_brennen · 1 Feb 2009 at 18:14

The 1TB Samsungs have some mighty data density, therfore high data throughput. Can't say I know the access times of the top of my head tho

Phemo · 1 Feb 2009 at 18:43

Ali195 said:
SAS HDD on SATA? ...some of those are 1500RPM.

SATA drives work on a SAS controller, but SAS drives won't work on a SATA controller. Therefore he'd need a SAS controller as well which is probably going to be more than £180 on its own