My review of Western Digital 320GB RE3 and 2 in raid0 :)

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First one was DOA, click of death after 1 day of use
Next one would cause RAID0 to fail within 2 weeks, tried a few things in the space of 2 months (different port, different rail, etc etc) and it always failed on this disk, sometimes it clicks.

Either the box was dropped heavily or batch.
 
ps3ud0 said:
Stimpy_7,

I cant offer you any results but I was in exactly the same circumstances, but I decided to return a new VR and replaced it with 2x250Gb RE3s because it meant that I could get similar performance for half the cost...

I dont really need to save the money but wanted speed, other than maybe not being the first in a map Im happy...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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thanks for the reply.

Were you running raid raptors previously? if so do you find that the RE3 are faster/ more responsive than those were?

I currently have an old 74gb raptor and i'm getting the upgrade bug, also the noise it makes is slowly driving me insane!

It's a tough call as i don't really need vast amounts of space, a 150gb vr would do me fine i think, although these pose an interesting prospect.

Cheers
 
I only had a single 150Gb Raptor and before that a 74Gb so its hard to compare.

It sounds like perhaps 2x 74Gb VRs might be ideal for you (if you can find them) - I just thought the loss in relative speed just didnt matter to me (the savings go towards SSD eventually which will negate VRs usefulness in my eyes)...

I have noticed though that VR prices have gone up recently - my 300Gb VR was under £200 when I bought it - now its £230+...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ps3ud0 said:
I only had a single 150Gb Raptor and before that a 74Gb so its hard to compare.

It sounds like perhaps 2x 74Gb VRs might be ideal for you (if you can find them) - I just thought the loss in relative speed just didnt matter to me (the savings go towards SSD eventually which will negate VRs usefulness in my eyes)...

I have noticed though that VR prices have gone up recently - my 300Gb VR was under £200 when I bought it - now its £230+...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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yeah prices have gone pretty crazy eh! Yeah i think 2 x 74gb vr would probably be ideal, although that's also quite an expensive option. Maybe a 150 vr would be the most economically viable.

Did you notice an improvement coming from a single raptor to the re3 raid setup? i like a nice snappy feel to the OS so that's the most important thing for me really.
 
It definitely feels better, but then Ive also gone from a system that needed a reinstall to a new clean one and also moved from XP to Vista aswell as going from a single OS HD to a RAID 0 OS HD (Ive also uged from X2 to C2D :p).

Quite a lot of changes youd agree - no doubt someone will confirm my opinion, I just dont want to give you an unequivocal answer since it could be attributed to any one (or more) of my changes...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ps3ud0 said:
It definitely feels better, but then Ive also gone from a system that needed a reinstall to a new clean one and also moved from XP to Vista aswell as going from a single OS HD to a RAID 0 OS HD (Ive also uged from X2 to C2D :p).

Quite a lot of changes youd agree - no doubt someone will confirm my opinion, I just dont want to give you an unequivocal answer since it could be attributed to any one (or more) of my changes...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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Cheers dude :)
 
JeffyB said:
Very pleased with my 3x250gb re3's, overall a much snappier pc which is what i wanted :)
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I have bitten lol, i had 2 x 250 re3's just orded an additional drive.

Really impressed with the drive so far, and the return from adding a 3rd in a raid 0 setup look pretty good.

What stripe size are you using?

Im running on a 32k stripe at the moment, found it to be the fastest and most balanced so far on the Maximus Formula.
 
32kb stripe here too, was recommended as the best overall stripe size for everyday use by quite a few people here.
 
How much impact do hardware raid controllers have on this. I noticed a lot of guys here seem to be using them over the 'soft'raid onboard controllers.
 
One of my discs has bought the farm, not sure which yet, RMA time ;)

Thank god for my Window Home Server backup ;)
 
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