Hard Drive Speeds and RAID 0

zdude255 · 04-26-2007, 10:04 PM

I know opinions on RAID are mixed, but I'm considering upgrading to one with my Badaxe board.

I need more storage, but would also like to improve performance. What would be the fastest of:

A RAID 0 of two 7200 RPM drives
A 10K RPM SATA drive (thinking about Newegg.com - Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM )

What changes would you notice in performance from a single 7200 RPM drive with each system? There's a faint possibility of doing RAID with two of those 10K drives, but I'm not sure if that would improve performance.

Again, not asking to compare price or value, but difference in load and boot times.

b1gapl · 04-26-2007, 10:07 PM

The best option if you want to RAID, is with two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drives. Gives you better bang for your buck than a raptor.

Sora · 04-26-2007, 10:46 PM

The raptor will still be faster however RAID 0 of two 7200.10 drives will offer close to that while giving about 4 times more space for the money.

turtile · 04-26-2007, 11:20 PM

I would say it gives you about a 30+/- % speed up over a single drive.

04-26-2007, 10:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
zdude255 Junior Techie Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 68	Hard Drive Speeds and RAID 0 I know opinions on RAID are mixed, but I'm considering upgrading to one with my Badaxe board. I need more storage, but would also like to improve performance. What would be the fastest of: A RAID 0 of two 7200 RPM drives A 10K RPM SATA drive (thinking about Newegg.com - Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM ) What changes would you notice in performance from a single 7200 RPM drive with each system? There's a faint possibility of doing RAID with two of those 10K drives, but I'm not sure if that would improve performance. Again, not asking to compare price or value, but difference in load and boot times.

04-26-2007, 10:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
b1gapl Commander SMod Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 11,803	Re: Hard Drive Speeds and RAID 0 The best option if you want to RAID, is with two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drives. Gives you better bang for your buck than a raptor. __________________ Recommended PC Components Guide Potentially the longest thread in history!! Tech-Forums Official 3DMark06/05/03 Top List

04-26-2007, 10:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sora Renowned Budgeting Master Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Uniontown, PA Posts: 4,122	Re: Hard Drive Speeds and RAID 0 The raptor will still be faster however RAID 0 of two 7200.10 drives will offer close to that while giving about 4 times more space for the money. __________________ E6300 w/ Arctic Freezer Pro 7 @ 3.6ghz 1.4Vcore Antec 900 Case EVGA 750i FTW Mobo 2x1GB of DDR2-533 D9GMH Team Xtreme 4-4-4-12 @ 1030mhz 2.2v Gigabyte 8800GT 720/1800/1050 (eventually will SLI when they go down in price) Hanns G 19" Wide 5MS LCD 1 250GB WD and 1 Seagate 7200.10 in RAID 0 Corsair 520HX 3DMark06 Score: 13900

04-26-2007, 11:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
turtile Wizard Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Delaware Posts: 3,449	Re: Hard Drive Speeds and RAID 0 I would say it gives you about a 30+/- % speed up over a single drive. __________________ Intel Prescott 3.0 Socket 478 40x2 RAID 0 Maxtor + 40GB & 120GB 160GB Seagate in Vantec NexStar 3 Enclosure ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe LG DVD-ROM NEC DVD-RW DL 1GB Corsair PC3200 GeForce 5700 256MB DDR

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