SATAII's over Raptors? - RAID 5 or 0?

refoowbuS · 3 Jul 2006 at 16:26

Hi all... I could really use some help on this...

I've seen in tons of forums that 4x SATAII drives (RAID 0) will out perform 2x WD raptors, (my two 36GB raptors, RAID 0, on the right):

I'd really appreciate some opinions on my decision to go for 4x WD 250GB SATAII's and whether I should be safe and use RAID 5 or go for RAID 0. Thanks...

refoowbuS · 3 Jul 2006 at 20:04

It was more of a question than a statement... simply wanted to know if 4x SATA II will definitely outperform 2x Raptors.........there's a lot of confliting reports out there.

I'm set on getting 4 SATA II's anyway........ so I would appreciate advice/experiences on any risks with 4 drive on RAID 0, are these drives unlikly to let you down as long as you've got serge protectors, good hardware firewall ect...

refoowbuS · 3 Jul 2006 at 22:44

Thanks for the advice james, I guess most peoples votes would be with the raptors

... It's just that I've seen some killer results posted with 4xSATAII's RAID0... I'm not sure if even 2 raptors could top what I'm seeing :confused:

refoowbuS · 4 Jul 2006 at 08:05

That's what I'm talkin about! That'll reduce the bottleneck I'm getting...

Could anyone give advice on whether 4 drives on RAID 0 are too risky?

refoowbuS · 4 Jul 2006 at 09:48

Cheers for the advice Khan... a friend told me that RAID 5 with 4 drives would give you the safety plus as good performance as RAID 0, is that right? I'm not so sure.

refoowbuS · 4 Jul 2006 at 12:22

Cheers ByteJuggler... I've got a GA-G1975X (G1 Turbo) mobo that supports RAID 0, 0+1 and 5.......It's worked great with RAID 0 so far, but I've got no idea if it's onboard controller is any good with RAID 5 though?