Which HD for raid

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im going start using raid, so i need a pair of hd,

reading arround tells me to get the SG 7200.10

or the WD 320 AAKS, this will be running in RAID 0

thanx
 
I have been using 2 x 250Gb WD drives in my RAID0 array for a year or so.

Probably would go for Seagate now - my last 4 drives I have bought in the past 4 months have all been Seagates.
 
When i eventually set up my RAID 0, i will be buying 2 SG Barracuda 160GB drives.

They seem to be very cheap at the minute, and have the 120GB SATA 1 which is extremely good, so look promising.
 
schumi84 said:
When i eventually set up my RAID 0, i will be buying 2 SG Barracuda 160GB drives.
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I wouldn't go with the SATA 160Gb Seagates that OCUK have at the moment, they're the older 7200.9 series so not as quick as the newer 7200.10s. The 160s to look at just now are the Hitachi 7K160s or the WD AAJS drives, they're both single platter drives so they're very quick in comparison to the direct competition.
 
The synthetic benchmarks I've seen, HDTach, HDTune etc, give the AAKS drives a slight edge in terms of sustained transfer. That's not the be all and end all of performance though.

Suffice to say I doubt you'd be disappointed with either.
 
TiZoR said:
are the WD AAKS faster than the seagates?
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In HDTach, with the 320GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA, I get 66MB/s, with a 500GB WD AAKS I get 71MB/s, I would think the performance of the 320GB AAKS is similiar to that of the 500GB version.

But both the 7200.10 and AAKS range of HDDs are very good. ;)
 
So basicly go to ocuk and buy on impulse between the seagate and WD and be happy, cheers :cool:
 
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