Raid 0 Western Digital Green Caviar 500GB x2 or One 1tb drive?

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Drumstick

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Raid 0 Western Digital Green Caviar 500GB x2 or One 1tb drive?

I've been wondering if it's worth getting another WD Green Caviar drive (500GB) and setting up RAID 0 with my other WD 500GB drive or just buying a 1TB drive.

I've been told that having a 1tb will have the same performance as two 500GB drives.

I'm from Australia if pricing helps with suggestions.

CPU: AMD Phenom x4 II 925 @ 2.80ghz
Memory: Corsair Dominator 2GB @ 1880 mhz(If I'm correct) Single Channel - Soon to be dual channel.
 
Most boards support hardware RAID now but if not you can still software RAID them with the OS.

That said, I wouldn't suggest RAIDing WD Greens. You could get a 1TB WD Black for less than the cost of 2 500GB greens.
 
salvage-this said:
what motherboard do you have? Does it support software raid?
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Gigabyte GA890-GPA-UD3H, it does support software RAID controller, it's controller Gigabyte Raid Controller I think.

In the instruction manual, it says I have to press ctrl+f to access the raid setup on the post memory test or something but it comes appears to fast
 
Cromewell said:
Most boards support hardware RAID now but if not you can still software RAID them with the OS.

That said, I wouldn't suggest RAIDing WD Greens. You could get a 1TB WD Black for less than the cost of 2 500GB greens.
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Yeah, I was also considering this :)
 
Drumstick said:
Gigabyte GA890-GPA-UD3H, it does support software RAID controller, it's controller Gigabyte Raid Controller I think.

In the instruction manual, it says I have to press ctrl+f to access the raid setup on the post memory test or something but it comes appears to fast
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You have to switch it to RAID mode in the BIOS first (see manual page 85). Once that's done, you should see the 'Press <Ctrl-G> to enter RAID Setup Utility ...' just after POST.
 
FYI, no board supports hardware raid. Its technically firmware raid, which is somewhat of a combination of hardware and software raid. Its a decent cheap way to implement raid on a motherboard.
 
bomberboysk said:
FYI, no board supports hardware raid. Its technically firmware raid, which is somewhat of a combination of hardware and software raid. Its a decent cheap way to implement raid on a motherboard.
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It depends on which JMBXXX is used, if its the 36x series then you're right it's not a hardware RAID engine but generally speaking software RAID is associated with a RAID set up by your OS not some external setup program.
 
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