New storage @ 210$

[nullface]

I need some new HDD's (or maby only one?).

I have approximatly 210$, and was looking at the F1's (640's and 320's).

First i was off buying 2x640, but i dont know if its a bit overkill for me, i have maneged with a 200GB Seagate untill now, i admit i have had some space issues but nothing i couldent handel with a few deletes.

I have a lot of FLAC and ALAC music on my harddrive and some movies too.

I want a swift storage system for both storage and OS.

Shold i go with one 640, 2x320, 2x640 or maby 2x320 and another one if i need more space?

And a little bonus question, are there some good cheap raid contolres out there, or is the onboard good enough?

[nullface]

No one?

But a simple question them, are the 640 and 320 equaly fast?

[adamsleath]

unless you want raid then the cheapest is to go 1x 640GB, i dont know speed difference btwn 320 and 640.
3x 320's in raid 0 is another possibility.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/603/1 - some tests including 640GB

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380/14 - some tests including 320GB's

im sure someone round here has already done some tests; i read in another forum that the 640 can beat the 320GB (ie the western digital caviar version) in some tests.

[nullface]

Yeah i want to try some raid :D
I just cant deside how much space i need.

I can get 3x320 to roughly the same price as 2x640

BTW: im gona use onboard raid (raid0) on a P965, are there any limitations that would favour 2 disk over 3 or vice versa?

[adamsleath]

some would say onboard in inferior to dedicated raid card.

i dont think sata throughput is an issue, but more the actual controller and cpu usage.

i just have 1 x 640gb

ssd's are starting to pop up but it's early days, they're expensive...i think i'd want 64GB...maybe srape by with 32GB:shrug: GB's/$ is very bad tho.

well, a 2 disk raid will be faster than a single 640gb i would have thought, not as many GB's/$ however.