Which HDD

dayloon · 8 Apr 2007 at 19:51

Time for a HDD upgrade and I can't decide between the following 2 setup's

Either....

1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

OR

2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache (RAID 0 setup)

So basically, either 1 500gb 7200.10 or 2 250gb 7200.10 setup as raid0. I've done lots of reading about whether raid0 is worth it but everywhere has different opinions.

Any help appreciated !

smids · 8 Apr 2007 at 20:08

1 drive of 500GB. Chance of failure is 1/2 that of 2 drives. RAID0 is good for speed of writes and reads, but if you are using it for storage, I would choose 1 drive over 2. Neither is particularly failproof, but one is statistically more so.

It all depends on use and your backup method should things go wrong.

dayloon · 8 Apr 2007 at 20:19

I do regular backups to an external HDD so the failure part of raid0 isn't that much of a concern if i'm honest....hummm, what to do

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