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500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM] The Husband Date: 23/01/2008 13:27
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Going to install a couple of 500Gb HD in my machine to setup a 1Tb RAID 0 array this weekend...

Question is, which make of HD - Maxtor, WD, etc... Any recommendations?


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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM] Jack Date: 23/01/2008 14:08
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WD are pritty good, I would avoid maxtor. Samsung are ment to be v good now and normaly come with a 3 year warrenty.

Edit: having looked WD and seagate do a 5 year warrenty now and both are good quality. Seems the way to go.
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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM]Alarm Date: 23/01/2008 14:20
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YOU asking the N00bs for advice

Well I would say if you want quiet drives Samsung are very good.

I have 2x160gb and 2x250gb raid 0 arrays on mine and they are Western digital 16mb cache drives (from memory)

I would say try and get 16mb cache minimum drives if you can.

A review bit old tho. http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/seagate500gb_wd400gb_hd/


anyway who am i kidding im sure all the main players in the HDD market are decent enough the differences will be in milli seconds.

Just use 4x raptor drives instead!



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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: Commanche Date: 23/01/2008 14:56
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I'd have said western or seagate...

All depends on whether you want functional, reliable or cheap.

Bearing in mind it's you, I'm going with reliable.
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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM] + FROG + Date: 23/01/2008 15:12
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my 500gb WD drives are running well, so i would prob by WD again

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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM]cHOCOLATEmILK Date: 23/01/2008 16:09
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Awesome how the first comment said exactly what I was thinking. Basically, not Maxtor

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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM] G-Rox Date: 24/01/2008 00:29
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I have 2 x seagate barracuda 500gig. No complaints, very nice. I would recommend to anyone TBH.
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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM] The Husband Date: 25/01/2008 14:27
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Thinking I may leave "volume" for a few months, and just go for speed this month instead...

How about a pair of WD Raptor 150GB 10000RPM instead in RAID 0.


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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM] + FROG + Date: 25/01/2008 15:17
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Raptors are great, only downside is they can be noisy as they spin so fast.... but if you want speed... its Raptors or solid state.

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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: Commanche Date: 25/01/2008 16:10
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I nearly suggested you hang it all and go for 2 raptors in a raid 0 but I thought even you wouldn't waste money on doing that Hubby...

Then again I could be misguided as to your mental state...
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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM]cHOCOLATEmILK Date: 25/01/2008 20:07
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I think I might get a couple

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-047-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

for ultra speeds

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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: [KM]Butcher Date: 25/01/2008 20:13
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[KM]cHOCOLATEmILK wrote:


for ultra speeds

Go for it!

Then hopefully it will "speed" you onto the server
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Re:500Gb Raid 0 Array
By: Commanche Date: 26/01/2008 03:11
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64 GB = a bit small

Suppose you could use them as C: drives and get a couple of big drives for data storage.
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