Hard Drive question

[entropy1982]

Hey guys,
I bought 2 raptors from dell for 325 shipped. I think i can sell them back on ebay for at least that much.
I have read that 2X250GB SATA II hitachi drives are about as good as the raptors.

Please let me know what you guys think i should do with these 2 raptors i have.

Sell both of em? Sell one use the money to buy 2X80GB sata II hitachis? any suggestions are very welcomed

Thanks a lot for your help

 

[entropy1982]

bump

 

[suicidalpigeon]

sell them and get some seagates, good stuff and great warranty. raid 5 is all i would ever do, 0 isnt fun to have.

edit: and dont bump when its been only 8 minutes between posts.

 

[entropy1982]

Any specific reasons why? i have heard some people say good things about the Hitachis

Anyone else have any advice?

 

[entropy1982]

bump

 

[suicidalpigeon]

seagate's warrant is 5 years and again has great performance. raid 0 gives minor performance gain depending on what you're doing, and if one drive croaks, it takes the other's data with it. hitachi's are ok, but western digital and seagates are top notch.

 

[BigCoolJesus]

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
seagate's warrant is 5 years and again has great performance. raid 0 gives minor performance gain depending on what you're doing, and if one drive croaks, it takes the other's data with it. hitachi's are ok, but western digital and seagates are top notch.

Go hitachi, they have the best drives when it comes to SATA 2 (a 500gig hitachi beat out a 74gig raptor in benchmarking), and they have the fastest speeds.

 

[entropy1982]

wouldn't it be better to buy 2X250gb SATAII drives and raid 0 instead of 1 500gb drive?

 

[kojava]

Have you seen these?

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454

 

[entropy1982]

Originally posted by: kojava
Have you seen these?

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454

both very very good articles, too bad the last one didn't compare the raided SATAII drives to the raptors but it's looking like i'm gonna sell both of my raptors and just get 2X250gb hitachi SATAII drives and raid 0 them.

Anyone else have any input on that?

Thanks

 

[suicidalpigeon]

have fun risking your data with 0.

 

[entropy1982]

it's ok i'm not risking it i have a big IDE drive that's a slow piece of crap so i will just run some program that automates backing up certain folders at night and no risk

 

[paperfist]

 

[paperfist]

These benchmarks seal the deal for me

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ultimat...kstation_ultimate_gaming_pc/page15.asp

 

[furballi]

Don't get too carry away with HDD benchmarks. Pay attention to the warranty, noise level, and price. Seagate would be at the top of my shopping list. It has a 5 yr warranty, is relatively quiet, and costs $59 after rebate (160GB).

Real-world read/write speed for these drives including RAID 0 is about 20MB/sec! You can easily perform this transfer test if you have at least two partitions in your HDD. Make sure you defrag all partitions for best performance.

Wait for this item to go on sale in the next few weeks. Avoid RAID 0.

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4303155

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: furballi
Don't get too carry away with HDD benchmarks. Pay attention to the warranty, noise level, and price. Seagate would be at the top of my shopping list. It has a 5 yr warranty, is relatively quiet, and costs $59 after rebate (160GB).

Real-world read/write speed for these drives including RAID 0 is about 20MB/sec! You can easily perform this transfer test if you have at least two partitions in your HDD. Make sure you defrag all partitions for best performance.

Wait for this item to go on sale in the next few weeks. Avoid RAID 0.

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4303155

I don't see why this seagate was even brought up. This discussion is about the performance of the SataII hitachi's vs. the raptor. Clearly a normal seagate sata drive doesn't even compare to the raptor or the sata II hitachi's.

I'd get the hitachi's, they're great performers and atleast on the normal hitachi sata drive I own, it's noise is only apparent when it really spins up and even then, it is no louder then the fan trying to keep my prescott cool in the shuttle.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

how about rereading the op and figure out why seagate was mentioned.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
how about rereading the op and figure out why seagate was mentioned.

It's the "any suggestions?" bit that does it for me.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
sell them and get some seagates, good stuff and great warranty. raid 5 is all i would ever do, 0 isnt fun to have.

edit: and dont bump when its been only 8 minutes between posts.

Won't the parity writing in RAID 5 take a while?

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
how about rereading the op and figure out why seagate was mentioned.

It's the "any suggestions?" bit that does it for me.

Yeah, "any suggestions", i guess that means it doesn't have to pertain to sata II or the raptors, even though thats all the op talked about.

 

[entropy1982]

now now guys let's not agrue, any constructive input is always welcomed =)
I decided to raid0 two hitachi SATAIIs
Thanks for your help everyone

 

[ND40oz]

Excellent choice, I intend to go with sata II hitachi's once i get a sata II capable motherboard.