Disk imaging on RAID

WoZZeR · 14 Aug 2011 at 22:17

I'm thinking of ordering the WD Blacks on 'this weeks specials' and was wondering if I would need to re-install Windows.

The current Raptors are in RAID mirroring.

RJC · 14 Aug 2011 at 22:21

In the past I have changed my setup from RAID 0 to single disc and back to RAID 0 with just doing a disc image using Acronis.

WoZZeR · 14 Aug 2011 at 22:24

I was thinking of ordering 2 for each PC and continuing the RAID as it as proved very useful when a HD fails.

The old HD's are 150gb. Will have a nose at the Acronis site.

Surveyor · 14 Aug 2011 at 22:55

If you're getting the 1TB drives then consider the Samsung F3's instead and save £'s.

The only reason to get the WD Blacks is for the 5 year warranty.

7,200-RPM terabytes from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD face off

We're left with Samsung's Spinpoint F3, which is our clear favorite of the four. Not only does the F3 offer the best performance in all manner of sequential transfers, it's easily the quietest of the drives overall. I'm not thrilled by the fact that the F3's transaction rates drop off after 32 concurrent I/O requests, but that's not a condition many desktop users are likely to face. Besides, the Spinpoint certainly held its own in our disk-intensive multitasking tests, which are far more indicative of the sort of workloads produced by enthusiast desktops. Samsung doesn't give up much ground to the Caviar when it comes to random access times, either.