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400GB SATAII 16MB Cache ----------------------------- $210
2x 250GB SATAII 16MB Cache stripped into one drive ---- $220

which should i get..... im about 90% leaning twards the 500GB total over the 400GB... also i heard striping makes the drives faster then one drive anyways...
 
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That's true about striping, but you know I've never been able to actually do it? It illudes me :mad:
Hitachi has one of the better 500Gb SATA II drives
 
Agreed. $10 seems like a great price for 100GB, and RAID 0 will improve performance. Of course, if one drive fails, you'll lose all your data.

icemakr, are you still interested in creating a RAID 0 array?
 
wait, what do you mean, if i stripe the two 250GB WD drives, to make one 500GB, and one drive fails i lose ALL of my crap?
 
No that was back in the windows 2000 days.

You can do a raid 10 setup which is 2 striped drives mirrored, so it would be fault tollerent
 
Raid 0 is data striping. I haven't worked on RAID with SATA, but I currently have a RAID IDE setup. For best performance, you can take two usually identical hard drives and have them raid 0 (data striping.) The data you have goes to both hard drives at the same time, thus making it fast. It doesn't put anything in order, it just puts it where it is most convenient. If one drive fails, you can't use or access any of your data. The way I look at it, is when you have a single hard drive you lose all your data, and when you have raid 0 and one fails, you still lose all your data. If you want to keep all your data backed up, you can get raid 0+1 and run both data striping and mirroring, so you won't ever lose your data and still keep performance. That requires four hard drives. Oh yeah, and make sure that your motherboard supports SATA raid before you get both hard drives.
 
pshhht... trying to sell stuff on the site eh? lol...

80GB=my videos
IDE=slow as poo
.5TB or .008TB? hmm...... choices.....
 
icemakr said:
No that was back in the windows 2000 days.
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RAID setup is independent of the OS

You can do a raid 10 setup which is 2 striped drives mirrored, so it would be fault tollerent
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He's looking for 2 drives not 4! RAID 10 requires 4 drives, and costs half the space (e.g. 4*250GB drives in RAID10 = 500GB of usable space).

wait, what do you mean, if i stripe the two 250GB WD drives, to make one 500GB, and one drive fails i lose ALL of my crap?
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Yes. Make sure everything is backed up! That's always good advice anyway though, and while you are doubling your risk of failure, it's reasonable rare for new drives to fail without warning these days.

Really found this drive great.... No problems...

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He's looking for 400-500GB of space, not a used 80GB drive. Stop suggesting this to everyone when it obviously doesn't fit their needs!
 
hairbear999 said:
Really found this drive great.... No problems...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8755957194&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Fcgiurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%252Fws%252F%26fkr%3D1%26from%3DR8%26satitle%3D8755957194%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1

Enjoy
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yea whats the deal are you advertising or someting. need to get that pile sold quickly? you know your going to get banned or something thats not cool.
and me, id go for the 2x 250 GB drives but wouldnt put them in RAID, as i dont think it gives a noticable gain in performance.
 
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