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Which Hard Drive to go for?
Hi,
I want to buy as new hard drive but have a dilemma: I have the following options: 1) Buy 1X 160GB SATA hard drive - $130 2) Buy 2X 80GB EIDE drives and use RAID - $110 3) Buy 2X 80GB SATA hard drive and use RAID - $160 Between the first 2, does SATA go faster than EIDE RAID or does EIDE RAID go quicker than a serial ATA solution. Depending on which you recommend from the 1st 2, is it worth the price difference to get the 3rd option. Its almost $50 more. Please advise on which of the above I should look into, or, if you have more recommendations, please let me know. Thank you |
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"Ari Oppenheimer" wrote in message ... Hi, I want to buy as new hard drive but have a dilemma: I have the following options: 1) Buy 1X 160GB SATA hard drive - $130 2) Buy 2X 80GB EIDE drives and use RAID - $110 3) Buy 2X 80GB SATA hard drive and use RAID - $160 Between the first 2, does SATA go faster than EIDE RAID or does EIDE RAID go quicker than a serial ATA solution. Depending on which you recommend from the 1st 2, is it worth the price difference to get the 3rd option. Its almost $50 more. Please advise on which of the above I should look into, or, if you have more recommendations, please let me know. what do you want storage space ,speed or security? you did not specify |
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:34:37 +0200, "Ari Oppenheimer"
wrote: Hi, I want to buy as new hard drive but have a dilemma: I have the following options: 1) Buy 1X 160GB SATA hard drive - $130 2) Buy 2X 80GB EIDE drives and use RAID - $110 3) Buy 2X 80GB SATA hard drive and use RAID - $160 Between the first 2, does SATA go faster than EIDE RAID or does EIDE RAID go quicker than a serial ATA solution. Depending on which you recommend from the 1st 2, is it worth the price difference to get the 3rd option. Its almost $50 more. Please advise on which of the above I should look into, or, if you have more recommendations, please let me know. Thank you What's important to you? Performance, reliability, storage capacity, backward compatibility, price? Of course you can't have the best of all of those choices so your particular preferences and intended storage and system usage must be considered. The following isnt' an all-inclusive overview but just a few thoughts: #3 is fastest but unless you have another board with same SATA RAID controller, it's not backwards compatible or particularly reliable, being a RAID 0. #2 is slower than #3, could be faster or slower than #1 depending on the exact drives and how much you use the PCI bus for other devices... It's best to avoid placing drives on a PCI bus based controller when utmost performance is desired. #1 is most reliable by doing without the RAID 0, most compatible with another system should your motherboard fail, though PATA would be even moreso. It's a good standard configuration but for some uses you'd benefit from having a 2nd drive for backup purposes or greater performance... some tasks benefit more from 2 independant drives than the same two drives in a RAID 0 array... for example video editing source/destination or pagefile location if the machine has too little memory. Dave |
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I'd like to know the same thing...
Order of importance... 1) QUIET! 2) COST 3) FAST 4) COOL 5) RELIABILITY 6) SPACE Considering a pair of SATA WD 72gig Raptors running RAID 0. Cost seems a bit prohibitive though and not sure how warm these things get. "Ari Oppenheimer" wrote in message ... Hi, I want to buy as new hard drive but have a dilemma: I have the following options: 1) Buy 1X 160GB SATA hard drive - $130 2) Buy 2X 80GB EIDE drives and use RAID - $110 3) Buy 2X 80GB SATA hard drive and use RAID - $160 Between the first 2, does SATA go faster than EIDE RAID or does EIDE RAID go quicker than a serial ATA solution. Depending on which you recommend from the 1st 2, is it worth the price difference to get the 3rd option. Its almost $50 more. Please advise on which of the above I should look into, or, if you have more recommendations, please let me know. Thank you |
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:58:22 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Phrederik" wrote : I'd like to know the same thing... Order of importance... 1) QUIET! 2) COST 3) FAST 4) COOL 5) RELIABILITY 6) SPACE Considering a pair of SATA WD 72gig Raptors running RAID 0. Cost seems a bit prohibitive though and not sure how warm these things get. Maxtor. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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Hi,
Original Poster here. I kinda already have a clear view of how much space I want. I want 160GB. The only factors that I am concerned with is with speed/price. I don't really care about the drive being cool, nor do I care how reliable it is. Noise is also not a factor for me. There is no way I'll even touch WD Raptors, they are exorbitantly expensive. By the way, I have an ASUS Nforce 2 motherboard with a built on Serial ATA controller, supporting both RAID 0 and 1. Pease let me know your views. Thanks "Ari Oppenheimer" wrote in message ... Hi, I want to buy as new hard drive but have a dilemma: I have the following options: 1) Buy 1X 160GB SATA hard drive - $130 2) Buy 2X 80GB EIDE drives and use RAID - $110 3) Buy 2X 80GB SATA hard drive and use RAID - $160 Between the first 2, does SATA go faster than EIDE RAID or does EIDE RAID go quicker than a serial ATA solution. Depending on which you recommend from the 1st 2, is it worth the price difference to get the 3rd option. Its almost $50 more. Please advise on which of the above I should look into, or, if you have more recommendations, please let me know. Thank you |
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"Shepİ" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:58:22 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Phrederik" wrote : I'd like to know the same thing... Order of importance... 1) QUIET! 2) COST 3) FAST 4) COOL 5) RELIABILITY 6) SPACE Considering a pair of SATA WD 72gig Raptors running RAID 0. Cost seems a bit prohibitive though and not sure how warm these things get. Maxtor. Didn't you see #1... QUIET. Maxtor makes the noisiest drive on the planet... at least all of mine have been. Only louder drive I've ever had was an RMA I got back from IBM. |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:36:11 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Phrederik" wrote : "Shepİ" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:58:22 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Phrederik" wrote : I'd like to know the same thing... Order of importance... 1) QUIET! 2) COST 3) FAST 4) COOL 5) RELIABILITY 6) SPACE Considering a pair of SATA WD 72gig Raptors running RAID 0. Cost seems a bit prohibitive though and not sure how warm these things get. Maxtor. Didn't you see #1... QUIET. Maxtor makes the noisiest drive on the planet... at least all of mine have been. Only louder drive I've ever had was an RMA I got back from IBM. You better tell mine to shout then coz I ain't heard it since I installed it :O) -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:36:11 GMT, "Phrederik"
wrote: Didn't you see #1... QUIET. Maxtor makes the noisiest drive on the planet... at least all of mine have been. Only louder drive I've ever had was an RMA I got back from IBM. Looking backwards, the Plus 9 and Plus 8 have fluid bearings, are quiet. The D740 was in both fluid and ball-bearing, the fluid was quiet but the ball-bearing versions were some of the noisiest Maxtors ever, though at the time they were the fastest *affordable* ATA drives available. Further back the Diamondmax Plus 60, Plus 40 were about average noise. A modern Maxtor is barely louder (insignificant) than a Seagate IIRC, but a LOT quieter than a WD. Dave |
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Good to know...
Buying local, it isn't such a big deal, but trying to RMA a mail order drive because of noise if frustrating. "kony" wrote in message ... On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:36:11 GMT, "Phrederik" wrote: Didn't you see #1... QUIET. Maxtor makes the noisiest drive on the planet... at least all of mine have been. Only louder drive I've ever had was an RMA I got back from IBM. Looking backwards, the Plus 9 and Plus 8 have fluid bearings, are quiet. The D740 was in both fluid and ball-bearing, the fluid was quiet but the ball-bearing versions were some of the noisiest Maxtors ever, though at the time they were the fastest *affordable* ATA drives available. Further back the Diamondmax Plus 60, Plus 40 were about average noise. A modern Maxtor is barely louder (insignificant) than a Seagate IIRC, but a LOT quieter than a WD. Dave |
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