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April 25th 08, 11:42 PM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x
160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking 
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April 26th 08, 01:46 AM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
doddie wrote:
Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo ! I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system. To get really reliable then budget for an enterprise class sata drive. -- Cheerz - Brownz '89 K100RS '53 JCW MCS (Cage) http://www.brownz.org/
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#3
April 26th 08, 02:14 AM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
Brownz (Mobile) wrote:
doddie wrote: Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo ! I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system. To get really reliable then budget for an enterprise class sata drive. Here; try a pair of these: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/117755 -- http://www.kustomkomputa.co.uk - Personalised Desktop Computers
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#4
April 26th 08, 02:42 AM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:46:26 GMT, "Brownz \(Mobile\)"
wrote: doddie wrote: Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo ! I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system. 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? To get really reliable then budget for an enterprise class sata drive. Not worthwhile. If OP is speaking of RAID0, reliability is certainly not a priority. If OP is speaking of RAID1, we can't expect a gain from enterprise class drives to matter as enterprise class does not result in a more reliable drive, pretty much an urban myth that they last longer.
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#5
April 26th 08, 02:49 AM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:42:16 +0100, "doddie"
wrote: Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII RAID1 or 0? Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid The typical major name brands are reliable enough to run RAID1. The budget is not enough to get a reasonable performance boost with RAID0 enough to offset the risk of data loss. If you were thinking of RAID0 with that budget, I'd advise you to just get a single 500GB drive or a pair of 250GB and not raid them, instead dividing IO between logically separate volumes. seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 IF you really want to RAID a couple drives that is not a bad choice within the budget you listed.
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April 26th 08, 10:33 AM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
Brownz (Mobile) wrote:
doddie wrote: Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo ! Unless, like the ones referred to by the OP, they are Diamondmax 21 drives (STM3250820AS). These are essentially re-badged Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives and represent very good value. -- Tony '08 DL650GT, '04 XL1200C, '95 LS650 (in bits - being rebuilt), OMF#24
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#7
April 26th 08, 06:21 PM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
Brownz (Mobile) wrote:
doddie wrote: Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo ! I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system. To get really reliable then budget for an enterprise class sata drive. Ehh - why not Maxtor? He needs to test his RAID so a perfect solution!
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#8
April 26th 08, 06:24 PM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
kony wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:46:26 GMT, "Brownz \(Mobile\)" wrote: doddie wrote: Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo ! I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system. 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!
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#9
April 27th 08, 12:30 AM
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Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives
"doddie" wrote in message ... Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x 160GB SATAII Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is about 60 quid seen this one from Amazon ... Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive £30.99 thanks for looking 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. 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? Specs... Intel Duo E8200 oc to 3.2 ghz 2GB Crucial 512mb Asus 8800 GT TOP XP Thanks for all the replys :-)
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#10
April 27th 08, 12:42 AM
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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.
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