2x 7,200 RPM RAID 0 VS 1x 15,000 RPM?

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audiobahn1000

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I am wondering which option would be better for gaming, decompressing large win.rar files, loading Windows, and executing many file operations simultaneously.

Two 7,200 RPM 16 MB. cache Seagate 250 GB. SATA 3.0 GB/s RAID 0 HD's

OR

One 15,000 RPM SCSI 8 MB. cache HD?

or a Raptor 10k.
 
i think the 2 in raid 0 would be better than the raptor because it is stripped it would be equivalent to 14200 rpm or so im told, im unsure of how good those 15k drives are
 
audiobahn1000 said:
How about the 15k's? I am told 15k drives pwn all...
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I would hope so, seeing as how they're pretty expensive.

As for the hard drive thing, I beleive that write times will be faster with the 2 7200RMP drives in RAID 0 as each HDD writes half of the data, however the WD Raptor would still have a faster access time.

Raptors are getting old now, and really don't offer the advantage that they use to over 7200RPM drives.

What we need is new improved 10K drives.
 
Western Digital.. my old friend. Here it is, 11:49 at night.. and guess what I'm doing? I'm sitting here at the office, repairing yet ANOTHER buggered WD. And I mean REALLY buggered. A WD1600 Caviar SE as a matter of fact.

And.. to my left.. A WD5000AAKB.. Yes girls and boys, that's a 500GB WD Caviar SE16. And guess what? It's so fubar even a repair won't work. The backup MFT is totally screwed. There are a dozen bad clusters marked on it.. and the chkdsk repair fails trying to repair the MFT$ (Gee, I wonder if that's got anything to do with the fact that it's reporting an unknown filesystem and a size of -1 GB.. POS!!!!) And here.. A WD800JD.. Done. In the back seat of my car, another WD1600.. Completely dead.

Every, single day the last two weeks I've repaired at least one Caviar SE. It's up to you.. You can listen to the fanboys, or you can use your brains. :)

Real geeks don't buy Caviars, and real geeks DON'T use RAID0. They value their pr0n collection.

For reliability and a duty cycle that will absolutely devastate a Caviar SE, it's the Raptor, hands down. It's their enterprise class SATA drive and it will simply slaughter a Caviar SE.

For performance and absolutely stellar MTBF and duty cycles that will make a Caviar look like a Connor (not like they need any help), a 15k Seagate is unstoppable. For bulletproof drives... Seagate SCSI. I use 3 - 136 GB Seagate SCSIs in my one server, 6 146GB Fujitsu SCSIs in the other one. I have 3 - 36GB Seagate SCSIs pulled from the Dell in a box in the back room.. Still perfect condition...
 
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Yeah but how would you get one in a desktop PC? Expansion card?

Real Geeks put RAID 0 on 4 15k RPM drives....
 
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dIdk...I've heard a TON of bad things lately about new Seagate drives...

Reviews on VARIOUS Seagate drives are reading "DOA," however I beleive that Seagates are better overall, and and it's just recently that they've been having issues.

Anyways, what do you think would be the fastest 7200RPM drive available? (preferabbly around 250-500GB)
 
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word on the net is that seagates made in china = maxtor standard whereas seagates made in singapore = the parent company and therefore higher quality standards.

i'd look for the made in singapore wording
 
vonfeldt7 said:
dIdk...I've heard a TON of bad things lately about new Seagate drives...

Reviews on VARIOUS Seagate drives are reading "DOA," however I believe that Seagates are better overall, and and it's just recently that they've been having issues.
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I just bought a small 80 gigabyte model ST380815AS Seagate Barracuda hard drive. Hopefully I got a good one. At least it's got a five year manufacturers warranty on it if it does go bad.
 
Having two 7200RPM drives in a RAID 0 array would be best IMO, not because of speed but because of storage capacity and the lower price.
 
Maybe share with us what difference it makes how cheap it is and how much storage capacity you have when it goes "boom" and you lose all your data... :)
 
[-0MEGA-];919677 said:
Having two 7200RPM drives in a RAID 0 array would be best IMO, not because of speed but because of storage capacity and the lower price.
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I have read that RAID 0 produces NO improvement in gaming performance. In some cases it even degrades gaming performance. From what I read only a faster HD will provide better loading times in games.

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SirKenin said:
Maybe share with us what difference it makes how cheap it is and how much storage capacity you have when it goes "boom" and you lose all your data... :)
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It's cheaper because a $70 250GB hard drive costs much less then a $400 15K SCSI drive, and RAID 0 does not go "BOOM". True the chances of a crash or failure are doubled, but hard drives don't fail every week.

audiobahn1000 said:
I have read that RAID 0 produces NO improvement in gaming performance. In some cases it even degrades gaming performance. From what I read only a faster HD will provide better loading times in games.

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No hard drive will increase gaming performance, only the game loading times. RAID 0 also does not degrade performance if you get a good RAID controller, and not one of those POS built in controllers. For the extra hundreds of dollars that you would spend on a raptor or SCSI drive, you could have bought a better CPU or video card.
 
For the last two weeks I've repaired at least 1 WD Caviar SE a DAY. Don't tell me they don't go that often. And, on top of that, RAID 0 INCREASES that chance by at least double, because a Caviar SE was never designed for that role and even on the best of days RAID0 cuts the MTBF in half. Even in your stupid synthetic benchmark thread you couldn't make the point. Yeah, with some fake, POS benchmark tool you could say "wow! Look at this!", when in actuallity in real life the only difference it makes is in your head. Certainly I, as a person that fixes them every day, just sits here and shakes my head at the stupidity.. but whatever. We've already heard the frantic cries of at least one sucker that had a RAID0 configuration blow up on them and couldn't get it back.

Do not encourage people to make a very bad choice.

Data, not your CPU, is the most important thing on that computer. The more you rely on that data, the less important it is that you get a 13,000 in 3DMark (yet crappy VGA scores).. and more important that you preserve your data.
 
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