Raid 0 or single drive?

damianpaul

damianpaul

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Hi, I have a quick question. I'm building a new system (gigabyte P35C + E6420) and was wondering if it would be better to RAID 0 2x Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JB ATA-100 8MB Cache - OEM or buy a single Western Digital Caviar RE 320GB 3200YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (they come to approximately the same price).

I already have 400GB of other storeage so I'm after best performance for <£60 rather than more space (this new drive(s) would be used for OS and games).

Damian
 
Personally, I would just get the bigger drive.

I would go for the 320GB AAKS though. Can't recommend those drives highly enough at the moment. :)
 
What's the difference between the 3200KS and 3200AAKS? From what I read the AAKS has 2 higher density platters while the KS has 3 lower density platters, is it correct? What kind of performance increase are we looking at here?
 
I believe the 3200KS is a generation older, ie the 3200AAKS is the latest.

I have the 500GB AAKS and I get 71.6MB/s in HDTach.

Have a look at This thread. :)
 
Thanks, that's a nice result, I never paid much attention to HDD result but that's a good 10mb/s faster than my 3200KS. Cheers will have a look at that link :)
 
How do the 500GB AAKS drives compare to the seagate 7200.10 500GB?

I'm thinking about getting 2 320GB AAKS drives in raid 0 for vista 64 and 1 500GB AAKS for storage etc
 
XysteR said:
How do the 500GB AAKS drives compare to the seagate 7200.10 500GB?

I'm thinking about getting 2 320GB AAKS drives in raid 0 for vista 64 and 1 500GB AAKS for storage etc
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I think the Seagate drives are a pretty similar speed but apparently a lot noisier.
 
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