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| Thread ID: 68829 | 2006-05-12 04:18:00 | RAID 0 Yes or No?? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | Press F1 |
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| 454342 | 2006-05-24 07:40:00 | as long as you back up to cd/dvd i say GO FOR IT ! :) | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 454343 | 2006-05-24 07:55:00 | Ok, and what size drives would you reccomend? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 454344 | 2006-05-24 08:10:00 | as big as your wallet will allow ! chech out the reveiws as far as speed is concerned. get ones that are big as you need and as fast as you can thats withen your budget. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 454345 | 2006-05-24 08:24:00 | Only thing is that it is for Windows so... it is not needed to be very big it will be the Seagate 7200..9s just what size I am trying to sort out...:) |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 454346 | 2006-05-24 09:28:00 | Only thing is that it is for Windows so... it is not needed to be very big it will be the Seagate 7200..9s just what size I am trying to sort out...pressf1.pcworld.co.nz Thanks for the thread. I was wondering about RAID. Currently I have two Seagate SATA II 200 Gig drives. I also have 1 Seagate 160 Gig drive which is not in the new rig I have at this time. Added to that I have 1 Maxtor 200 Gig USB external and one CD/DVD writer. Was wondering whether I should go for a RAID system or not. Hope I did not hijack your thread. I don't think I will go RAID unkess anyone can convince me to. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 454347 | 2006-05-24 16:22:00 | As I am not a gamer, I don't see any need for the RAID arrays. I used them for a while, and found no appreciable speed/reliability factors that floated my boat better or worse. I switched to JBOD and don't see any actual performance changes, but I have over 90 full-length videos stored so far, and not a drop-out or stream loss yet. Time will tell. I just got less real storage space with the RAIDS after all is said and done. JBODs allow me so much more room. With 8 200gig hdds for video and audio storage, and one 40 gig for the root files, I am happy. "Boat-floating"......... is in the eyes of the boater. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 454348 | 2006-05-25 00:17:00 | watching video's isn't exactly highly demanding of diak access . gaming can be at times . if your accessing NEW files all the time a high speed disk is a must (old files just get pulled out cache) . hardrives are still the slowest part of the pc, bugger the size i want SPEED ! ! it would be interesting to do some testing on speed with non-office apps, exspecially tweaked up a bit . ie up the preloading of mp3/movies etc eg normally i up the preload of mp3's so it loads the whole mp3 into ram rather than have small but constant disk access . for normal use a higher rpm drive, ie quicker access times, is far more usefull than high data flow . |
tweak'e (69) | ||
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