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Hi,

I have budgeted around £120 for storage on my core2 rig i will be purchasing soon.

What would be the best combanation of drives to get ?

Im my current rig i have 2x120gb ide drives and i use one for the operating system, audio and pictures. I use the other for games and videos. Is this a good way to split the different applications ?

is it worth thinking of raid ?
for speed or safety ?

opinions/facts please !!
Ta
 
Or for about £15 more 2x Seagate 7200.10 320GB drives.

Both are excellent drives, but the Seagate has the edge with speed and has an extra 2yrs warranty. I have 2x 250GB WD drives and 1 Seagate 7200.10 (just bought another 2) and would fully recommend both types.
 
Phil99 said:
Or for about £15 more 2x Seagate 7200.10 320GB drives.

Both are excellent drives, but the Seagate has the edge with speed and has an extra 2yrs warranty. I have 2x 250GB WD drives and 1 Seagate 7200.10 (just bought another 2) and would fully recommend both types.
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aye the seagate is faster and has more warrenty. need to make sure you get a quiet one though, i've seen some threads about noisey motors from older stock.
 
ok, so its obvious people think that 2 drives is the better way to go than 1 large drive.

now, should i set them up in raid or leave as 2 drives ?

would i see better performance if saved one soley for games ? or had the O/S and games on the same drive ?

whats the best configuration of the two drive set-up ?

sorry if that all sounds like crap !
 
Performance = RAID0 - if one drive fails you've lost everything
Safest = RAID1 - if one drive fails you haven't lost anything

Or you could run in non-RAID (JBOD) which means if one drive fails you only lose the things on that drive, so you can backup things across the drives and you only backup the things you need to, so end up with more space.

A single 7200.10 is perfectly fast enough for Windows/Gaming etc, only go with RAID0 if you need cutting edge speed and have a good backup plan (e.g. DVDRs)
 
Phill99,

Phil99 said:
A single 7200.10 is perfectly fast enough for Windows/Gaming etc
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So as I have budgeted enough for two drives, would I see any improvement putting the o/s on one drive and games on the other ?

or both o/s and games on same drive ? (with maybe music,video etc. on the other)

or would it make no difference ?

Im just thinking along the lines of.... If info is required from the o/s and the game files at the same time it may be faster acessing it from 2 seperate drives rather than it all from one ?

With me ?
 
Personally I install everything on my C: drive then backup everything on my other drives and then use C: or D: as a working drive (e.g. for work in progress)

Don't think there'd be any speed difference worth the hassle of installing everything on a seperate drive.
 
I always use two drives in a RAID1 mirror. I then partition the RAID volume to separate system and data. I'm pretty sure there's no speed advantage to this but it makes backing up and migrating between PCs easier.
 
cheers for the advice guys, think i will go for 1x 320gb segate 7200.10.

I have 2x120gb maxtor IDE drives in my current pc which i will use one of to back up too as this doesnt need to be a fast drive. I will install everything else (system and games) on the segate.

does this sound like an ok way to do it ?
 
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