Which would be quicker

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The thread says it all, which drive(s) would be quicker to use my operating system on?
My system spec is as follows:
Q6600 @ 3.3Ghz / Noctua U12P
Gigabyte P35-DS4 Mobo
8gb OCZ PC6400 Gold Edition
Hyper 720W CPU
Antec 900

Now here's the choice:

2x 500GB (SATAII) Samsung HD501LJ 3.5" 7200rpm SATA300 Hard Drive 16MB Cache 8.9ms (RAID 1 or 0 [If used as OS maybe RAID1 otherwise RAID0 for backup)

OR

1x Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII *32MB Cache* 8.9ms

If the SpinPoint is used as the OS drive, the RAID drives will be used as backup, and visa versa.
Thanks,
Addicted
 
It's a bad idea to use RAID as a backup device.
Two RAID drives are going to be faster than one, and also less reliable. Your choice.
 
RAID 1 would be safest
RAID 0 would be quickest
and the single drive would be the cheapest

best to decide what you want out the drives first

MW
 
i have all 3 drives, but i need to RMA the 1Tb one, so when i get them back i'll have them all unformatted etc. I'm looking for speed particularly, so i'll just RAID the two drives and use other as backup, i have other backups anyway
 
Addicted said:
how come it's bad?
i thought if i was mirroring then it would be much better than just one drive?
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Looks like you said using a RAID0 for backup?
RAID 1 is a bit of a waste of drive space anyway, it only protects against hardware drive failure - not corruption or deleted files. Rather than use it to mirror, better to use the space by placing an image of the disk you want to backup on there - you then have full control of whats in the backup, when the backup is made, and it doesn't change unless you let it. You can also do incremental backups to save changes over a period of time (or even multiple disk images if they'll fit using compression). Combine this daily file-by-file backup of documents and email folder and you'll be unlucky to lose anything of importance.

A few years ago I had a RAID1 for a while, accidentally deleted a load of photos off the drive and didn't notice for a couple of days. Couldn't un-delete them, and of course they were gone from mirror drive too. Not a lot of use.

RAID1 is more for use on servers running 24/7, reduces down-time in the event of failure. It does not replace doing proper backups.
 
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