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Old July 29th 04, 04:02 PM
Andre
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Hi,

I asked myself the same question some months ago.

I choose to use only one drive (a Maxtor 200 Gb SATA).
It works fine and avoid overheat problem of 2 drives too close one to the
other.

I don' regret it til now.

Regards.

Andre



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Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?

Thanks

Paul



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Old July 29th 04, 04:37 PM
me!!
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Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?

Thanks

Paul
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Old July 29th 04, 05:23 PM
Doug Ramage
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"rstlne" wrote in message
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"me!!" wrote in message
news
Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?

Thanks

Paul



Everything I have read says that you'll see better speed from 2 80's

running
in raid 0..
That's how I am planning on doing my next build so maybee you can tell me
how it works out



Although dependent on what the machine is going to be used for, there have
been some recent discussions about the usefulness of RAID0 for a
workstation.

I have 2 Raptors in a RAID0 array, and it is much faster than my previous
7200 rpm SATA drives. But I have not tried the Raptors without RAID.
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Old July 29th 04, 05:50 PM
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"me!!" wrote in message
news
Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?

Thanks

Paul



Everything I have read says that you'll see better speed from 2 80's running
in raid 0..
That's how I am planning on doing my next build so maybee you can tell me
how it works out


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Old July 29th 04, 05:52 PM
Rob Stow
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me!! wrote:

If running in raid 0, do the drives show up as a single partition or
do you still get 2 drive letters?


Neither.

The RAID array (regardless of whether it is
RAID 0,1,0+1,1+0,3,5,or JBOD) will show up as
a single physical device and you can partition
that device within the limits of your OS.

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Old July 29th 04, 06:01 PM
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well the speed is all depended on how good the controller and drives are,
personally i have a 2x160 raid 0 array, using maxtor 8mb cache, running on
the promise raid controller on the PC-DL Deluxe board and i only manage to
get about 40mb/s of sustained data rate. On my last mobo with a highpoint
raid controller this was closer to 60mb/s using the same disks.

I would do some research first on the controllers.

"rstlne" wrote in message
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"me!!" wrote in message
news
Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?

Thanks

Paul



Everything I have read says that you'll see better speed from 2 80's

running
in raid 0..
That's how I am planning on doing my next build so maybee you can tell me
how it works out




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Old July 29th 04, 06:41 PM
me!!
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I have 2 Raptors in a RAID0 array, and it is much faster than my previous
7200 rpm SATA drives. But I have not tried the Raptors without RAID.



I would like a pair of raptors but my budget would limit me to 2 of
the 36.7gb drives.

For the same price i could get 2 120gb 7200rpm sata rives.

If running in raid 0, do the drives show up as a single partition or
do you still get 2 drive letters?

thanks

paul
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Old July 29th 04, 06:59 PM
Ben Pope
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me!! wrote:
Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?



Depends what you're doing, but in most cases... not really.

I have a Raptor for my OS and a WD2500 for my media, games, whatever. That
way I get fast and large. But in all honesty sustained transfer rates are
the same. It's only seeking where the Raptor leaves 7200RPM drives in it's
wake.

I'm not sure why you feel so compelled to replace both of your drives
though?

Ben
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Old July 29th 04, 07:14 PM
Doug Ramage
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"me!!" wrote in message
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I have 2 Raptors in a RAID0 array, and it is much faster than my previous
7200 rpm SATA drives. But I have not tried the Raptors without RAID.



I would like a pair of raptors but my budget would limit me to 2 of
the 36.7gb drives.

For the same price i could get 2 120gb 7200rpm sata rives.

If running in raid 0, do the drives show up as a single partition or
do you still get 2 drive letters?

thanks

paul


They are seen as one large drive.
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Old July 29th 04, 08:49 PM
Ben Pope
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me!! wrote:
I'm not sure why you feel so compelled to replace both of your drives
though?


Both my current drives are fairly small ( 40 + 60gb ) si i thoughti
would replace them as they are nearing full.


They'll still be useful.

I always keep my data. games etc on a different drive to my os. If i
get just one 160gb sata drive can i still keep the 60gb ide drive
hooked up for backup on the ide controller?


Of course. You COULD leave them both there! (although you might not
require the storage)

Also will i need to press F6 during xp setup to tell it about the sata
controller and drive.


If you're planning on reinstalling, yes.

Ben
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