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RAID or Velociraptor?

Post Date: 2010-01-14
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    Posted: 14 Jan 2010 at 10:40pm
So my bottleneck comes down to my hard drive now and I really want something better. Don't want to spend too much money though, rough $180 or less. I don't need much space so I was considering getting four cheap 80GB hard drives and putting them in RAID 0 with my current 320GB as backup once a week.

However I've also always heard good things about the Velocirapotr and it seems it has come down in price a little bit. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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4 cheap drives in raid will get their butts massacred by a velociraptor, and it will get killed by a good SSD, but that is just out of the budget.
what drive do you have now?
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I have a generic 320GB WD hard drive I got from here 2 years ago. It scores a 5.7 on windows media index (Windows 7 x86_64)

I'm clueless when it comes to hard drives, I just want something better than what I have.

Q6600 at 3.6Ghz in sync with 4GB of muskin at 1600mhz, 8800 Ultra GPU (dying)

Not sure whether to wait for Fermi or to pick up a 5850 now. Really like Nvidia more though.

So just want a hard drive that can keep up with that.
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 14 Jan 2010 at 11:11pm
a 300 GB velociraptor will be a good upgrade, simple, easy and faster. RAID's can improve your overall HDD but, they see their gains mostly in large files transfers, not small file transfers, which is way more important in gaming,  when I build RAIDs I allways short stroke the drives to improve seek times, but still one velociraptor will still win over  4 cheap 80gb drives short stroked. If you need the space 2 short stroked 640 Black drives  will give you around 640Gb of space and performance very close to a velociraptor for cheaper, but it is also a hassle to make, and also at an increased failure rate.
and also remember what fast drives can do for gaming.
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Posts: 298 		  Quote Clinton Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 14 Jan 2010 at 11:25pm
Well I just need something that's very good for multitasking and accessing lots of programs at once. I do game a lot and also do a lot of work on this computer.
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for the price then Velociraptor 300Gb, next choice would be 640 WD blacks in RAID 0 short stroked, next choice is the 160Gb Intel, in RAID but out of the budget.. I would highly discourage the 4 80's in RAID..
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