Hard Drive situation.

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itzfrank

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Ok so recently a friend of mine gave me a brand new Seagate ST336607LC HD. This HD is a 37gb 10k with 4.7ms avg and an Ultra320 SCSI interface. Now my problem with this is that 37 gigs goes rather quickly these days with music and movie downloads, so what should i do? Would i be better of selling this HD and purchasing a new one with more memory but slower RPM rate or keeping this HD and trying to run 2 HDs( if this is possible ) with the first for application use and the second for media storage. Any advice is appreciated.
 
You could sell it and grab a 120 for about ~$50..

Would you need to sell the other drive toget the new drives? Yes you can have more than 1 HD.

I would throw the SCSI drive as my main one and the slower ones as backup HD's.
 
I'm thinking that i'm going to keep the drive and get a slower HD for storage purposes. But how much will i be effected by slower RPMs and when? Is there anything i need to know about setting up two HDs? Anything specific i need to loko for in a Mobo to do this?
 
its not a big deal to run more than one HDD at a time...i'm currently running five.

as long as windows is on the 10k drive, and the other drives are used as storage, you shouldn't really notice a performance decrease.
 
i dont know, i have two 80gigs in RAID 0 and i use that as my system drive and storage drive at the moment. RAID 0 definitely made it a lot faster, but not because of latency... try running this:
http://www.hdtune.com/
run it, and post a screenshot.

this is mine as a single 80gig
hdbench.jpg


and dual 80gigs in RAID 0
RAID0.jpg
 
A RAID with a pair of Raptors SCREAMS... However, that or about any SCSI drive is pointless. Drives today are so large anymore, and really pretty fast. I'd sell it if you could.

I still have that RAID benchmark screenshot saved if you're interested...

74G.jpg
 
It seems as though my best bet is to sell my SCSI and just get something else. Everyone agree? I'm all ears. 37gigs won't last me long anyways.
 
I agree. SCSI is expensive. If you sell the drive and the controller card for it and replace it with a good 7200 drive, you'll lose some speed but I don't think it'll make too much difference to you.
 
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