Raid 1: 7200 rpm or 10k rpm

Dr_Evil · 20 Nov 2006 at 17:04

Thinking of having a Raid1 Array for my new system. As I used a single 10k drive before, would it be best to buy a second 10k drive? Can i see a good performance improvement over using 2x 7200 rpm drives?

also is it safe to say that SATAII performs 2x faster when moving or copying larger files over?

just need some advice on what drives to use. Ta!

Dr_Evil · 20 Nov 2006 at 17:14

OK well I have a 36Gb Raptor (1st model) and was thinking what would benefit my multimedia/gaming system better:

* Raid 1 - 2x 36Gb Raptor Sata 10k RPM

or

* Raid 1 - 2x 80Gb Samsung Spinpoint SATAII 7200 RPM

this is for my system drive, mainly for OS, Program Files etc. I store all other stuff (downloads, video, documents, pictures) on secondary drives anyway.

Dr_Evil · 22 Nov 2006 at 09:43

I meant Raid 0 (striping). So are you saying that your 2x Seagates in Raid0 are as fast as 1x Raptor ?

Dr_Evil · 23 Nov 2006 at 11:54

I never use my system drive to store importand files anyway. Providing you have 2 good drives, RAID0 will just offer 2x speed of 1 drive, correcT?

Dr_Evil · 24 Nov 2006 at 15:31

Can any SATA solution beat 2 x WD Raptor 74Gb (WD740ADFD) in RAID0 ?

Dr_Evil · 24 Nov 2006 at 15:38

Yes new model 16Mb cache. I want to go for speed, no need for 1TB storage here...

My guess is this is the fastest solution on SATA, right?