Raptor in a Shuttle ST20G5

Mikey · 22 May 2006 at 11:37

I've got a new Shuttle system being built at the moment, I'm just waiting for the AMD 3700+ chip.

Now I'm using my old drives in this set-up, 1 x 36GB Raptor and 1 x Samsung Spinpoint. My main concern is about the 2 drives mounted together, normally I wouldn't be too worried but as it's a Raptor am i pushing it with this set-up. If I need to change it I'd sell the raptor and try and get another Samsung 160GB and make it RAID 1

Mikey · 22 May 2006 at 13:35

Ladforce said:
what are you worried about? the heat?

Yes sorry, I mean't the heat.

Mikey · 23 May 2006 at 15:10

Well time will tell, still tempted to try and find a 160GB Spinpoint drive so I can go RAID 1 as not sure how much difference a Raptor really makes.

Mikey · 25 May 2006 at 09:59

I don't think it's massively quick in my new shuttle, it used to be quick in my old system when I was running a seperate Adaptec 1210SA RAID card as I used to run two of them in a RAID 1 stripe but then sold one and return to JBOD.

I have to agree it is very very noisey, so I'm even more tempted to get a 2nd 160GB Samsung and return to a RAID 1 strip but across two 160 Samsung drives. Equally I'm not sure if I'm happy with my new Shuttle system so tempted to just sell it on anyway and use my company laptop for a while