anyone here have a raid setup?

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i havent had a HD fail on me since my first computer

i am thinking of picking up a raptor HD but my buddy is telling me i can get faster speeds running two 7200 rpm drives in RAID-0

but i am under the impression that RAID-0 setups fail at a much higher rate,

is there truth to this?

cuz getting 4 HD's for raid 1-0 gets gets pricey...

btw western digital 1TB "black" (32mb transfer and 7200 rpm) for 100 bucks at canadacomputers!!

 

[auron]

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i havent had a HD fail on me since my first computer

i am thinking of picking up a raptor HD but my buddy is telling me i can get faster speeds running two 7200 rpm drives in RAID-0

but i am under the impression that RAID-0 setups fail at a much higher rate,

is there truth to this?

cuz getting 4 HD's for raid 1-0 gets gets pricey...

btw western digital 1TB "black" (32mb transfer and 7200 rpm) for 100 bucks at canadacomputers!!
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I got a velociraptor HDD and installed win7 on it immediately. The only difference I've noticed is that it boots up almost immediately to windows. I'm not sure if thats due to the raptor or due to win7 but it's pretty nice.

If you want serious speeds I've heard two SSD in raid is the best way to go, if cost isn't an issue.

 

[Leroy]

if you're concerned about raid failing, you can mirror AND strip it. But then you'd have a fucking server. hahah.. but seriously, I've only lost a couple IDE's in my lifetime, and thats not a big deal, back up the important pictures in a safe place and you'll be fine. shit, it doesn't hurt refreshing your system every once in awhile either.

 

[iSeize]

drugz uses raid. ask him

 

[cranswick]

if you want any performance gain with 7200rpm drives you'll need a dedicated RAID controller with dedicated RAM...onboard RAID isn't the real deal and offers little for performance, the only real advatage to onboard fake RAID is having multiple physical disks acting as one logical drive, so you don't have to specify a shit ton of different drive paths when you're saving stuff on other drives once your primary is filled up...a single 10k drive would be better in this instance, and again better yet SSD...but it doesn't matter what kinda drive you have you won't get real performance boosts in RAID 0 unless you use dedicated hardware...