Hdd... Grrrr!

Burgerbob

Burgerbob

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My WD SATAII 160GB drive is about the slowest thing on earth. It actually loads Windows Live Messenger slower than my external 5400RPM USB drive. I was wondering... should i get a completely new drive, and ghost my current one to that? or should i get the same drive, and RAID them? If i RAIDed them, i dont know how i would keep my OS and everything, since half of the RAID would be taken up. The problem is, my parents dont realize how slow the HDD is, and so they just dont feel the need to get a new one. Ill take care of that problem, but what should i do?

THanks in advance,
Boigah
 
RAID isn't going to speed anything up. That is a very common misconception. If you require I will provide you with links to comprehensive tests and benchmarks to prove the point.
 
Ummm... RAID does speed things up, or it would be an obsolete technology, and even if it is, i could say that i have RAID in my comp :). I think it is a hardware problem though, cuz my temp monitoring programs say that im at 57C all the time... not good.
 
No, RAID 0 does not speed things up at all. It is not an obsolete technology because other RAID specs have practical uses. RAID 0 is the worst of them all, providing little to no performance gain (it's all in your head) and dramatically increases your risk of catastrophic data loss due to the striping.

The complete article here:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101&p=1

With the conclusion as follows:

If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer. The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop.
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