2 x 74Gb raptors or 1 x 150Gb raptor?

caseman · 27 Feb 2006 at 14:27

Last piece of jigsaw.....which should I go for...

caseman · 27 Feb 2006 at 14:37

caseman said:
Last piece of jigsaw.....which should I go for...

set up will be
3 250Gb Hitachi Tk250 in raid 5

1 150 Gb raptor or 2x 74Gb raptors for op system/MS office

is this good?

smids · 27 Feb 2006 at 15:08

1 150GB TBH. No hassle, fast drive.

clone · 27 Feb 2006 at 18:35

Sold my two 74gb raptors for the 150gb raptor X sweet drive

kinggost · 28 Feb 2006 at 21:23

i got the normal raptor wkd drive

bledd · 28 Feb 2006 at 22:11

raid0 from 2 x 74's is faster than 1x drive, but if you're buying new then, i'd go for the 150gb, less hassle as said above!

kinggost · 28 Feb 2006 at 22:18

less to go wrong as wel

jbloggs · 2 Mar 2006 at 23:53

I have 2 x 74GB Raptors, had them in RAID0 for 12 months, very fast, now have them as 2 single HDDs. If I was buying now, I would buy the 150GB Raptor as opposed to the 2 x 74GB.

The 150GB is a pretty smart bit of hardware!

smids · 2 Mar 2006 at 23:59

I downgraded my 74GB raptor raid and bought a 150gb raptor....didn't even miss the RAID - then again, I'm now back on a RAID0 but this time a RAID0+1 - worked out better than a 150GB raptor purely because of the RAID1 involved.

kinggost · 3 Mar 2006 at 09:46

smids said:
I downgraded my 74GB raptor raid and bought a 150gb raptor....didn't even miss the RAID - then again, I'm now back on a RAID0 but this time a RAID0+1 - worked out better than a 150GB raptor purely because of the RAID1 involved.

Did you see any diff between switching wouldn think you would have