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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:30:03 +0100, "doddie"
wrote: Gonna go for the Maxtors 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache (STM3250820AS) Pc used for gaming, video converting. so not too much bothered about data loss, as I backup my game saves and docs to an external HD regularly. External HDs are generally less reliable than internal due to being hotter running, lower quality PSU, and occasional glitches in caching causing corruption. If you aren't bothered about data loss then why the question at all? Drives don't generally lose data but otherwise remain intact when internal, except in cases of buggy RAID, but then RAID0 doubles the risk anyway. In other words, your goals are incompatible. If you choose RAID0 there's not much point in giving a moment's thought to the drives you use from a reliability standpoint. Just wondered about the reliability in general of these drives, compared to others So raid 0 the way to go for now, will there be much speed increase compared to single drive? No. This is the curious part, you are choosing RAID with seemingly no good reason, as if it's just a thing to do. For many uses a single, newer larger current generation drive will be faster. For other uses, having two drives but not raiding them will be faster. I may be making more of an issue than it really is, but the important distinction is that synthetic benchmarks tend to be less relevant to real world uses, and seldom do testers compare a RAID0 to two individual drives, they act as though someone would only use a single drive vs a 2 drive RAID0 which is not an isolation of the *RAID* variable. Specs... Intel Duo E8200 oc to 3.2 ghz 2GB Crucial 512mb Asus 8800 GT TOP XP Frankly since it seems you have a system with some value devoted to gaming (by the gaming video card), it would seem to be a good idea to add more memory. Game level reloads are much faster when the filecache has ample memory to cache the game, and returning to other system uses after gaming it is much faster if other files weren't flushed from the cache (as much). |
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:30:03 +0100, "doddie" wrote:
snip So raid 0 the way to go for now, will there be much speed increase compared to single drive? Specs... Intel Duo E8200 oc to 3.2 ghz 2GB Crucial 512mb Asus 8800 GT TOP XP Thanks for all the replys :-) I'd really be interested to hear back from you as to whether you actually see any speed improvement. I had a RAID 0 setup on a board several years ago (dual PATA drives, not SATA) and I found it just a bother, with no descernable improvement at all. I now have a RAID-capable board but haven't tired setting RAID up, since my previous experience was disappointing. -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ |
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
kony wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:24:13 GMT, DCA wrote: Ironically, that is a Seagate designed and manufactured drive with a Maxtor label. Haven't you kept up with the state of affairs after Maxtor was bought by Seagate? what is? the hitachi or the samsung - neither to my knowledge! Where in the world do you get Samsung from? The Maxtor is a Seagate, it is fairly common knowledge among those who kept up with such things. Yes - I know |
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