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Looking forward to upgrading my rig.
I as thinking of running two 250/300 gb SATA2 drives and perhaps in a raid configuration for more speed.
I have never had any raid setups before
I have heard RAID is bound to fail at some point if the drives are used a lot. In certain configurations all data is lost if one drive fails, right?
I would like to have either two Samsung or WD drives in a RAID setup which will give me a noticable speed increase but not lose in reliability.
Is this possible or should I just stick to single drives?
I read some reviews about samsung and WDC and it seems samsung are quiet but WD are faster for gaming. I do have a WDC 250 which im pleased with and I do not think it is loud.
What would you recommend? I play games and do use the PC for photoshop, video editing, some encoding and the usual yadda yadda...
I as thinking of running two 250/300 gb SATA2 drives and perhaps in a raid configuration for more speed.
I have never had any raid setups before
I have heard RAID is bound to fail at some point if the drives are used a lot. In certain configurations all data is lost if one drive fails, right?I would like to have either two Samsung or WD drives in a RAID setup which will give me a noticable speed increase but not lose in reliability.
Is this possible or should I just stick to single drives?
I read some reviews about samsung and WDC and it seems samsung are quiet but WD are faster for gaming. I do have a WDC 250 which im pleased with and I do not think it is loud.
What would you recommend? I play games and do use the PC for photoshop, video editing, some encoding and the usual yadda yadda...