10,000 single vs. RAID 0

There is a member here who shows that RAID 0 proves very little to no difference over one drive.

If I were to choose between the two, I would go with the 250GB, simply because I prefer space over speed. But if you want the best performance, go with the 10K drive.
 
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There is a member here who shows that RAID 0 proves very little to no difference over one drive.

If I were to choose between the two, I would go with the 250GB, simply because I prefer space over speed. But if you want the best performance, go with the 10K drive.
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I gotta be honest... you're the first person who has ever said that! Where can I find this article/page?

I want to have all 3 actually... but funds keep me from that since the entire computer is pretty much insane. haha
 
I ran RAID with two raptor's about a year ago. It was fast, but honestly, my current setup's plenty fast. Probably your basic dual drive RAID wouldn't be a huge improvement. However, if you did something like a quad RAID.....

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I just tried running HD Tach on my new machine. My previous RAID setup got 217MB/s. My current single drive setup got 170MB/s burst speeds. Sequential read speeds were about 110MB/s on my RAID, and 65MB/s this setup.
 
well, when I had RAID-0 with my dual 15k RPM Drives... it was EXTREMLY fast, but personally, it not worth the amount of little space you get with that 10k drive.. unless its a 250+ GB 15k drive... then its not worth a single drive.. if you can RAID-0 the harddrives, then id definatly say get the 500GB of RAID-0 7200RPM SATAII
 
Yea go for the raptor if you want more speed over space. I myself need one more of the 150gb 10k hdd to make it 2x 150gb 10k hdd's. But really it depends what you want. Space or Performance.
 
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well, when I had RAID-0 with my dual 15k RPM Drives... it was EXTREMLY fast, but personally, it not worth the amount of little space you get with that 10k drive.. unless its a 250+ GB 15k drive... then its not worth a single drive.. if you can RAID-0 the harddrives, then id definatly say get the 500GB of RAID-0 7200RPM SATAII
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Is that because of space/performance or just space?

I love my performance! Which is why if the single Raptor is better I am going to purchase a 10k rpm 16mb Cache 150gb Raptor in the future and run windows off that and leave the 500gb RAID setup for data

So there definitely is a performance boost when using the computer itself... and none when you are gaming. That's a little bit of comfort! haha
 
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these are often questions i've asked myself. the two drives offers high performance with large files, and the single driver config offers higher performance for smaller files and still very good performance for larger files. ultimately i'd go for the dual drive config just because its much larger, performs a lot better than a single 7200rpm, and much cheaper than a 150gb 10krpm hdd.

the 10krpm is nice for a low latency drive though. with the two drives they still offer a much higher latency than the 10krpm hdd just because of lookup times and such. not to mention the 10krpm is bottlnecked alot by sata1 just because it has a large 16mb buffer. large cache increases bandwidth normally... but without the interface to let it increase, its slowed down. if they made the raptor series sata2, then i'd say its better in almost all aspects except for pricing.

for the highest performance and reliability, i'd go with the 10krpm hard drive just because you increase the chance of losing all your data with two drives with a single partition. for better pricing i'd go with the larger drives in RAID 0
 
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