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| 343016 | 2005-04-09 05:36:00 | I also use two Seagate 120GB SATA drives in RAID0. I use the RAID for games and video editing, I never keep valuable data on it without a backup. Saved game data is not essential to me and video is burned to DVD following editing so any possible "slightly" increased risk of data loss is minimised. The reason there is a current "craze" for RAID is that more motherboards support it as standard and HDD's are cheap, making it a lot easier for the average user to afford a RAID system. In fact for the small cost of another drive why not keep your OS and important data on a separate drive altogether, away from the non-critical stuff? |
Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 343017 | 2005-04-09 05:38:00 | Well I currently have an 80gigabyte sata & 60gig ide isntalled. I could leave them in but err I think my computer might blow up or melt down leaving 4 hard drives and a cdwriter & dvd rom drive in there assuming it could even support the 6 drives in the first place... That'd be my only real feasible way of backing up..... Otherwise guess it's back to the Non-sata camp. |
Fatjoz (6366) | ||
| 343018 | 2005-04-09 05:42:00 | What's your PSU? I have the two SATA Raid drives, a PATA Seagate 120GB (for OS & other data), an IBM 15GB, a DVD writer and separate CD writer all in the same case. Works fine for me, have a good PSU though. :D | Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 343019 | 2005-04-09 05:44:00 | 300/350 watt something. cant' remember really. Probably needa boost the cpu anyway. I think I might actually get a 250gig drive instead of these 120s... |
Fatjoz (6366) | ||
| 343020 | 2005-04-09 05:50:00 | You'll probably find it's cheaper to get a larger drive than buy two smaller ones anyway. | Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 343021 | 2005-04-09 06:17:00 | Huh. Was wondering why the recent craze for RAId. Since its been around for ages and no-one used to care. Still, I'd much rather have the space. And NCQ on a Seagate sATA. The craze is being fuelled by the new(ish) technology of SATA drives. It is much like the race to upgrade to PCI-E. Then theres the latest crazes due out in the next couple of months to a year... Windows XP 64 bit, and Longhorn Ahh, computers are just a never ending craze of new technologies :cool: |
Myth (110) | ||
| 343022 | 2005-04-09 06:31:00 | Hmmm. I've beta tested Longhorn. Betas pretty buggy. Not bad though... | Fatjoz (6366) | ||
| 343023 | 2005-04-09 10:17:00 | The craze is being fuelled by the new(ish) technology of SATA drives. Hmm, can't see that it follows. I know tons of people with sATA and they aren't using RAID, they got the sATA partly cause its the new standard and partly for any slight performance increases. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 343024 | 2005-04-09 14:19:00 | What are you going to be using you computer for? <--This should be your first question if thinking about RAID. SATA is new, nice small plugs very narrow cables, I would go for SATA |
Rob99 (151) | ||
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