WD Black 1TB x2

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First off, a big shout to OCUK, ordered these drives lunchtime yesterday, delivered 2pm today. In northern Ireland. Took 15 mins from ordering to then being ready to ship! Thanks guys!

I havn't decided how to use them yet, RAID 1, RAID 0, or non separate backup drives, roll on any suggestions for them! (ps I'm currently using 2x160 samsungs in RAID 1, and an old 80GB Hitachi as a storage drive, and its full!)

Anyhows, if anyone wants any (free) benchmarks done give me a shout and I'll do my best :)

Taking ages to format like!
 
Matrix RAID

First part of the drives in a 500gb raid 0 array

Second part in a 750gb raid 1 array

Enough space for a huge os partition and all your important stuff cloned over both drives.
 
Ahh think I've found it, create a RAID 0 (or 1) and install the o/s, then install the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager and use it to create the second RAID from within windows. Hopefully by tonight this will all be over!
 
Ok, here are some HD Tune benchies I ran quickly

First, the freshly formatted drives

1.

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2.

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The RAID 0 array:

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The RAID 1 array:

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All in all, I'm a happy chappy :)
 
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