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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 "me!!" a écrit dans le message de 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 |
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2 drives or 1 drive?
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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"rstlne" wrote in message ... "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. -- Doug Ramage [watch spam trap] |
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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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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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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 ... "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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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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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 -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"me!!" wrote in message ... 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. -- Doug Ramage [watch spam trap] |
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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 -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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