Hard Drive Raid advice needed

[Steve Ryan]

Hi just a quick question i am currently using a WD SE16 3200KS sata 2 as a single drive.

I want to go onto RAID0 on my DS3 motherboard would performance be fair to say quite good if i added another WD SE16 drive or would the performance be so much better if i was to get 2 x Seagate 320gb 7200.10 really want for extra quickness for launching games.

Thanks for looking

 

[rpstewart]

A single WD KS drive will probably give you about 55-60Mb/s average transfer, a pair would probably be 100Mb/s or so. Two Seagates will benchmark quicker but maybe only by 10-15%. It's difficult to quantify how much difference this will make in the real world.

 

[Steve Ryan]

thanks for your opinion