Hardrives for raid 0

[mrapoc]

well i hate my current maxtor hdd for its grinding whirring noise it does while starting up and loading stuff so i would much prefer a silent drive (within reason) and i wasnt actually considering raptor

As long as it has the best performance for my money and doesnt drive me crazy with noise its the one for me.

I dont mind a slight difference in performance as long as its decent and not too noisy

 

[JN]

For the best combination of silence and speed i'd go Hitach Raid0. Inside a case mine are quiet as anything.

 

[mrapoc]

i cant see that i would see much difference between the two in everyday use

if anything a hitachi raid0 would be better as i dont keep important data and what are the chances of 1 failing? sure its more likely but it will only have the same effects as one failing?

 

[mrapoc]

2 of these in raid 0? http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=179773

be good performance close to / better than the seagates at all?

 

[FarFarAway]

2 of these in raid 0? http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=179773

be good performance close to / better than the seagates at all?

Should be faster than a single Seagate

 

[Raven]

compared my almost 3 year old hitachi 7k250(pata) with my halfyear old seagate 7200.9(sata2) with pcmark05

none of the harddrives has been recently defragmented, diskeeper claims there is 20% datafragmentation on the seagate and 28% on the hitachi so the numbers are not 110% correct.

the seagate is to the left and is used for storage and games and the hitachi is to the right and is split in 2 partitions, one for windows 11gb and the rest for storage.

Kempez, how about using pcmark05 when reviewing harddrives ?

 

[mrapoc]

are there any other manufacturers / models to consider? i mean like i want an overall winner as ive checked up on these hitachis and some people say great drive others say noisier than the seagates :S ohhhh gawd

 

[FarFarAway]

I DID use PCMark when I reviewed the HDD. Thanks

 

[glocktodahead]

would there be a benefit of having lets say a Pair of Raptors in Raid 0 for bootup and then have like a hitachi 500GB deskstar as backup? I saw someone did that and I wondered what the benefits would be.

 

[Raven]

I DID use PCMark when I reviewed the HDD. Thanks

yes you did, have to blame it on my bad eyes

7200.10 comes in at lowest 200gb so running 2 in raid will be more costly than 2x80gb which mrapoc wrote would be enough.

ran pcmark05 again after both harddrives was defragmented and it clearly shows the 7200.9 to be...slow so getting 2 of them to raid isnt the best solutions even if they are cheaper 80gb versions.

i ran the test twice on the seagate on a fresh reboot.

checked some other reviews on the 7200.10 and it seems to have a high rate of dataflow but not doing well in io benchmarks and has a rather high access time, 1.1ms higher than the 400gb 7k400 hitachi according to tomshardware.

 

[mrapoc]

wow i wouldnt expect that - thanks for investigating

how do you reckon western digital drives perform as mr specialtech advised me to go with them for best performance / silence ratio

 

[Raven]

wow i wouldnt expect that

neither did i, i knew the seagate wasnt fast but the scores i got wasnt much to jump around too.

espically not considering the seagate are "second" generation and the hitachi is something like third or fourth generation.

how do you reckon western digital drives perform as mr specialtech advised me to go with them for best performance / silence ratio

have not heard much about them except for the raptors that are fast hot and noisy but if they have the same quality as the used to then they should be good, still have an old 852mb western digital caviar and it works but not fast

 

[mrapoc]

well if the hitachi deskstars work well ill go with 2 80gbs in raid0. How would i set this up on a fresh install with all new components

 

[WC Annihilus]

Aye, I love my happy Hitachi's in RAID 0 right now. Been over 1/2 a year and still going strong (though that ain't too long, it's something to compare against for life sort of ), quiet, and fast. RAID is pretty simple to setup. There should be an option in your BIOS for activating RAID (default for my board was having it on). This basically gives you access to another sort of BIOS for the RAID controller. In that new BIOS just choose which drives you want RAIDed, what type of RAID you want, and it'll set it up for you. Then, when you install Windows, make sure to hit F6 when it prompts you for extra drivers (reminds me, make sure you have a diskette with the RAID drivers handy), pop in the diskette, choose the drivers, and it'll do the rest of the work for you

(note, if that thing confused you, it's all right. I'm horrible at explaining things , I'm sure someone else will set you straight, haha)