which is quicker?

[Gaygle]

i have 2x80gb hds in raid0 atm, but the other day the array failed, so i bought a brand new 320gb samsung spinpoint t 16mb cache hd. Now i think my 80gb hds are ok again and somethin jus went wrong. One is sata the other is ide with a sata adapter on it. They are maxtor plus 9 (abt 6 years old) and maxtor plus 10 (about 3 years old) drives. Both 8mb cache.

The problem is, i don't know whether to jus get rid of the old 80gb drives and replace them with the single new drive or not?

Which would be quicker?

 

[rpstewart]

Any 3.5" HDD bought new now will be a fair bit quicker than either of the Maxtors one on one. With a 7200.11 you might even get close to the RAID0 speed.

Whether to replace them or not is down to you. What do you need the space for?

 

[Gaygle]

don't really need much more space but i jus don't want the hd's to fail again and 320gb was the lowest one with 16mb cache. How will the samsung drive compare to the raid0 maxtors?