Must have fastest disks
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Just installed 2 seagate drives in raid. the thread is here
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17670188
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17670188
copsey:
Agree with what matt has said.
If you don't need/want quick Access times, ie < 8ms, I would just buy 2 x 320GB 7200.10s and RAID0 those instead of buying 2 Raptors. 2 of the new 16MB cache Raptors won't give you much more of an increase in Average read over the 2 x 320GB 7200.10s, what it will give you an advantage in, is the Access time, ie 7200.10s, 13ms, Raptors < 8ms, however, with the Raptors, you get less GBs for your £, that the 7200.10s.
When you RAID0 the 7200.10s, try using a stripe of 32KB, a good general size for running all kinds of applications.
Agree with what matt has said.
If you don't need/want quick Access times, ie < 8ms, I would just buy 2 x 320GB 7200.10s and RAID0 those instead of buying 2 Raptors. 2 of the new 16MB cache Raptors won't give you much more of an increase in Average read over the 2 x 320GB 7200.10s, what it will give you an advantage in, is the Access time, ie 7200.10s, 13ms, Raptors < 8ms, however, with the Raptors, you get less GBs for your £, that the 7200.10s.
When you RAID0 the 7200.10s, try using a stripe of 32KB, a good general size for running all kinds of applications.
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Thats exactly what i used! 32k stripe. and another point i forgot how noisy my 15K scsi drives are.duel boot. these seagate 10's are so quiet and i used to use raptor drives which were also noisy.
I have an earlyer seagate 250g SATA1 think its a 9 that i use for storage. anyway it dosnt come close on performance to the 10's but has been 100% reliable as a storage drive.
If WD were to bring out a SATA2 10.000rpm 16m raptor at 150g + i would imagine they would fly. but at the moment the transfere rate these 10's get is impresive! and the main reason i choose them over the 16m raptors. As a plus look at the price performance! the seagate drives are a great buy!
cheers guys
I just want the fastest - I don't really mind if I get less space as I already have a hardware RAID 5 array for storage. I want the fastest to load vista & apps. From the access times you quote, it sounds like a single raptor for system and a single raptor for apps might be the quickest?
I just want the fastest - I don't really mind if I get less space as I already have a hardware RAID 5 array for storage. I want the fastest to load vista & apps. From the access times you quote, it sounds like a single raptor for system and a single raptor for apps might be the quickest?