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Mr.X
08-14-2006, 09:57 AM
Which of the following would increase my overall HD performance:

-buying a second 250GB hard drive for RAID-0
-buying a single 150GB Raptor
-buying two 74GB Raptors for RAID-0

I was thinking that the second option would be the best choice. What do you think?

PS: My hard drive is already completely optimized for the best possible performance and I perform maintenance tasks at least once a week.
Kango
08-14-2006, 10:12 AM
Please move your post to here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=66

This is an "Intel" forum. OK?
Mr.X
08-14-2006, 10:22 AM
Oh, I'm sorry! Most of my posts are in here and I forgot I'm not supposed to post about that stuff here.
tardbus2
08-14-2006, 10:57 AM
Really depends on what kinda budget you have. You're going to pay more for 2x 74gb raptors but raid0 is pretty fast. The only problem with that is it's only ~150gb worth of space, but some pretty fast space = P
Vric
08-14-2006, 11:25 AM
the simple fact of having 2 hard drive instead of one does help a lot.
BlazingArrow
08-14-2006, 02:31 PM
Which of the following would increase my overall HD performance:

-buying a second 250GB hard drive for RAID-0
-buying a single 150GB Raptor
-buying two 74GB Raptors for RAID-0

I was thinking that the second option would be the best choice. What do you think?

PS: My hard drive is already completely optimized for the best possible performance and I perform maintenance tasks at least once a week.

Best overall performance will be with the 74 raptors in raid 0. Of course the 150 raptor is the fastest, I don't beleive it will be as fast as the 74's in raid 0.

:):cheer2:
Ender17
08-14-2006, 02:36 PM
Which of the following would increase my overall HD performance:

-buying a second 250GB hard drive for RAID-0
-buying a single 150GB Raptor
-buying two 74GB Raptors for RAID-0

I was thinking that the second option would be the best choice. What do you think?

PS: My hard drive is already completely optimized for the best possible performance and I perform maintenance tasks at least once a week.
a single WD740ADFD would be the fastest single drive
what areas are you looking to increase performance in?
ca1n
08-14-2006, 02:44 PM
I am very happy with my single raptor and sold my second one because it did not help me enough to even notice.
Mr.X
08-14-2006, 02:45 PM
a single WD740ADFD would be the fastest single drive
what areas are you looking to increase performance in?

I'm looking mostly for desktop performance increase like faster start-ups and shut downs, faster loading etc. Any performance increase in games is just an added bonus and not my primary target.

EDIT:I didn't expect this thread to go on since it's in a wrong section, so you might also want to check this (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111443)thread I created in General Hardware. It's basically the same (with different replies of course).