RAID

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:37 pm

Does anybody have a good suggestion for the best dirves to set up RAID?

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:01 pm

I'm no expert, but I would have thought any decent sized 7200rpm drives would have done fine.

Dan

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:06 pm

just make sure they are the same model.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:35 am

yep, same model same size!!

Oh and if you want a SUPER power awesome geekified system that will never get you a girl you could throw in Raptors at 10,000, but they are only like 72gb or something like hat, and REAL expensive.

Mike

Gamble · Post by **Gamble** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:41 pm

Actually you can get a 36gb model Raptor for about 80 bucks
and if you put those puppies in RAID 0 they will SMOKE when it comes to reading/writing ops, the bandwidth will be enormous as well. I am hoping to either run dual drives (small raptor for programs, OS, etc; bigger
drive(s) to store crap) or a RAID with two of the smaller ones. Either way my programs will load fast. Seek time on Raptors is great.

Also I would say that for all intents and purposes, two 250mb or 320mb HDs will serve any and all purposes you could need. I would go with Hitachi, WD, or Seagate, as they are all pretty renowned for their quality. Tell us what you choose!!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:50 pm

I use a pair of 10,000RPM Western Digital RaptorX 150GB hard drives in RAID 0 with a stripe size of 128k and love them. I have a pair of 500GB drives that serve as storage, so i can handle the small capacity of these drives.

I've run raid on about 7 different sets of drives from 5400-10000RPM's and this is by far the way to go.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:44 am

Wow the Raptors dropped in price!!

if money is no object - snag em!!

nice 4 or 8 drive raid would be cool ;)

Mike