New RAID Array Drives

Arthalen · 31 Mar 2010 at 18:07

Anyone have any suggestions on some decent Hard Drives to put into a new 3 or 4 disk RAID Array? I have a new PCI-Ex RAID Controller to try out, so I'm not looking for huge capacities but quick access speeds and big memory buffers....

I've discarded the idea of getting a SSD right now, will wait till later in the year I think as capacities are just too small for the price you pay.

Arthalen · 1 Apr 2010 at 15:11

No one have an opinion?

I've been doing some digging around, and it looks like the samsung F3 500GB HD502HJ drives tick all the boxes I want.

jbloggs · 1 Apr 2010 at 15:35

With a 500GB platter these (HD502HJ) will give good performance, the Spinpoint F3s (500GB & 1TB) are about the best performance/price HDDs about at the moment...

Arthalen · 1 Apr 2010 at 16:10

Awesome, pretty much what my Research showed.

If only someone had some in stock!! LOL!

kerrgreg · 1 Apr 2010 at 16:15

the other ones similar size ive found are these linky I have 3 of them in raid0 on a perc 5i 120mb/s read and write have not run any thing like hd tune on them but thats transferring large files across gigabyte network.

Arthalen · 1 Apr 2010 at 16:53

kerrgreg said:
the other ones similar size ive found are these linky I have 3 of them in raid0 on a perc 5i 120mb/s read and write have not run any thing like hd tune on them but thats transferring large files across gigabyte network.

Heh, I just got my hands on a PERC5 funnily enough

Hence the thread

However, you should be getting a lot more throughput than 120MB/s for a 3 disk RAID 0 array - 120MB/s is the Gb network limit.

With 3 disks, Im guestamating around 340MB/s in RAID 0 for Read throughput.

Arthalen · 2 Apr 2010 at 19:00

Oooh dear, was told by a competitor that that 500GB Samsung F3 maybe discontinued, as it doesnt look like there getting any more stock in!