Best 2 hard drives for Raid 0?

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i want Raid 0 and was wondering what hard drives you would recommend?

i dont need them to be huge storage as i dont use my windows drive for any of my downloads.

so you reckon 2x 320gb Samsung F1 would do nicely?
 
Jordanis3r said:
Apologies for the thread hijack - just a quickie - I have a handful of 72gb 15k and 146 10k drives - are they damn fast? (planning on using a pcie promise SAS card!)
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Yes they are very fast. They are also noisy, need dedicated cooling, and slurp power. I like 'em though, bit different from the norm.

Personally I would stay away from cheaper Promise cards (like the TX2650, for example). Make sure you get a true hardware RAID card made by companies like LSI, Adaptec or 3ware; it'll cost you, though.
 
I'd go with SAS 15K drives or Velopciraptor drives.

I still am a bit wary of SSD's yes I know they're quick but it's still infant technology - and the price per GB is horrendouos at the moment. From what I see, mediocre SSD's are big money and excellent SSD's are just daylight robbery at the moment.

As Sultan says, the drives do make a hell of a racket on full chat. I compromised and got a pair of V-Raptor's running off of an Adaptec Raid card. Have gone back to onboard IHC10R until Windows7 drivers become available then returning to the Adaptec card.
 
What do you actually need RAID0 for ?

I'd prolly say either raptors or seagate 7200.12 500GB platter drives...

If your looking for killer speed and decent access times you could short stroke a couple of 7200.12s.
 
totally agree with Rroff, best / fastest drives seagate 7200.12 for raid 0 3 mb/s read slower than raptors @ £40 each

500mb single platter silent / run cool / low height / uber performance.

and you can add 1 or 2 more to increase the read speed.

1 128gb ssd costs £250 so for £80 you've got 1tb of very fast drive setup spend the rest on ram and beer :cool:
 
avatar12m said:
totally agree with Rroff, best / fastest drives seagate 7200.12 for raid 0 3 mb/s read slower than raptors @ £40 each
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You're missing the point that velociraptors sell because they are 'snappy' more than fast, which is down to lower access times not sequential read/write speeds. :)

+1 on what you need RAID 0 for?
 
i just need the speed :)

what about 2x Western Digital WD6400AAKS Caviar Blue, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms ?

i already have 1 of them as my windows drive so thought another will be better option and cheaper.
 
If by speed you mean transfer rates, WD Blacks will do you better; I don't know the platter size of the drive you mention. If it's 333GB platters it should be pretty fast though.
 
If you need raw read/write transfer rates can't really beat the seagate 7200.12s atm without spending a lot of money or going SSD...

2x of them in RAID0 will max the controller out for around 50% of the capacity and not drop below 140MB/s... 3 of them in RAID5 will max the controller out for 80+% capacity and 3 in RAID0 will max out the controller all the way.

Or short stroking 2 to around 50-60% capacity will see min transfer rates in excess of 200MB/s and decrease access/seek times as well tho they still won't quite catch raptors up on that front.
 
google the model number I suppose?

Rroff said:
If you need raw read/write transfer rates can't really beat the seagate 7200.12s atm without spending a lot of money or going SSD...

2x of them in RAID0 will max the controller out for around 50% of the capacity and not drop below 140MB/s... 3 of them in RAID5 will max the controller out for 80+% capacity and 3 in RAID0 will max out the controller all the way.

Or short stroking 2 to around 50-60% capacity will see min transfer rates in excess of 200MB/s and decrease access/seek times as well tho they still won't quite catch raptors up on that front.
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I don't know which controller you're thinking of but you won't even come close to maxing out any half-modern controller with hard drives.

Edit: It would appear the bandwidth available to ICH10R is in the region of 600-700MB/s. So, if you have six 500GB/platter drives in RAID 0 then under optimal conditions you might just about reach the bandwidth limit :p Certainly not 3!
 
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miniyazz said:
google the model number I suppose?



I don't know which controller you're thinking of but you won't even come close to maxing out any half-modern controller with hard drives.

Edit: It would appear the bandwidth available to ICH10R is in the region of 600-700MB/s. So, if you have six 500GB/platter drives in RAID 0 then under optimal conditions you might just about reach the bandwidth limit :p Certainly not 3!
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Your right - I'm too used to rubbish nForce controllers :( that max out at 266MB/s.
 
I'm not sure if its due to the PCI pre-fetch being disabled or if they are only wired into a slow/shared PCI-e bus - I'd forgotten they are so far behind intel controllers.
 
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