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Hi guys, some advice please, price vs performance,
I currently have 2x Western Digital Caviar Blacks (WD6401AALS) from a couple of years ago set up as RAID 0 bought from ocuk, which I use to load games from, however they aren't quite as quick as I'd like, so I would like to upgrade them. Size wise they are both roughly half full (split into 2 partitions, for speed benefits, important data backed up elsewhere).
It's more to fiddle then because they aren't working and they will be reused elsewhere in other computers, but I'd like a speed increase really, won't match my SSD (which I am not currently using for games) and unless there is a large SSD floating about somewhere sub-£100 then I don't want one, I need a cheaper, larger size solution.
I looked at the Seagate XT Hybrid 500GB, but not sure that I'll get enough increase in speed, and at RAIDING either 2x Seagate 7200.12 (@ 500GB Each) or WD Black 500GB or 750GB (32mb vs 64mb cache however). The seagates are cheap, but not sure how they'd compare speedwise, I already have a Seagate 7200.11 for Media files and it performs fine.
So, what would you all suggest? I am currently using about 260GB for games and other data, then I'd need some space for the secondary OS too. If it gives suitable speed improvements over what I have I'd consider a single 1 or 2TB drive instead of RAID0 as long as it's cheap.
Thanks for any advice guys.
I currently have 2x Western Digital Caviar Blacks (WD6401AALS) from a couple of years ago set up as RAID 0 bought from ocuk, which I use to load games from, however they aren't quite as quick as I'd like, so I would like to upgrade them. Size wise they are both roughly half full (split into 2 partitions, for speed benefits, important data backed up elsewhere).
It's more to fiddle then because they aren't working and they will be reused elsewhere in other computers, but I'd like a speed increase really, won't match my SSD (which I am not currently using for games) and unless there is a large SSD floating about somewhere sub-£100 then I don't want one, I need a cheaper, larger size solution.
I looked at the Seagate XT Hybrid 500GB, but not sure that I'll get enough increase in speed, and at RAIDING either 2x Seagate 7200.12 (@ 500GB Each) or WD Black 500GB or 750GB (32mb vs 64mb cache however). The seagates are cheap, but not sure how they'd compare speedwise, I already have a Seagate 7200.11 for Media files and it performs fine.
So, what would you all suggest? I am currently using about 260GB for games and other data, then I'd need some space for the secondary OS too. If it gives suitable speed improvements over what I have I'd consider a single 1 or 2TB drive instead of RAID0 as long as it's cheap.
Thanks for any advice guys.
