Best small non raptor hdd.

snowdog · 23 Oct 2006 at 18:10

Hello,

My mate wants to raid his windows drive, to get better speed, he is using an old maxtor 40 gig now wich has terrible seek (20 ish ms) and poorish read.
So my question what is the fastest small hdd (not raptor, too expensive) with a good avrg read and good seek time for a raid 0 array for windows.
80 gb max , anything more is too expensive, prefferably 20 ish gigabytes per hdd.
It can be both sata and pata but my mate preferes sata.

Thanks in advance.

snowdog · 23 Oct 2006 at 19:36

True, but raid doesnt increase seek ,and my mate also wants good avrage read...
Doesnt have to be sata, its just prefferable ( less stuff with cables etc.)
Anhow ill tell him to get a 200 gb seagate as he wanted to get a seagate anyhow ( he wants one extra disk for strorage and a small drive for windows ).
Ill just tell him to get 2 seagates otherwise, although im unsure if he has the money to do it right away, hes on a very small budget.

Im also interested for myself what would be the best 40 ish 20 ish cheap hdd, in terms of performance.

snowdog · 25 Oct 2006 at 16:48

Am I correct i need :Intel® ICH8R, ICH8DH, ICH8DO
Intel® ICH7M-DH
Intel® ICH7M
chipsets for that ?

I have ICH7R not M

For matrix thing i mean.

lay-z-boy :

Hows performance like that, im interested in 4 hdd raid 0 too, will that many hdd affect avarage seek? What avarge read are you getting ?
Thx in advance.

snowdog · 28 Oct 2006 at 15:43

For smaller sizes : yes, but 2x250 is cheaper as 1x500 and a lot faster.
But indeed ill tell my mate (or he'll read it himself) to get a big baracudda 1st and *** to think more about the other thing.