Are harddrives more effective when you have more of them?

anon1239 · Jul 15, 2014

Hi, I recently purchased 5 5900rpm harddrives each with 4tb. I was wondering if the speed on this would be better than, say, 2 or 3 10000rpm harddrives.

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

Run them in RAID 0?

leeb2013 · Jul 15, 2014

more effective at what?
They are move effective at storing information, because there's more space.
In RAID 0, they can be faster.
In RAID 1, they are more effective at protecting your data as it is mirrored.

anon1239 · Jul 15, 2014

Yea they are using raid. I was just thinking that since 5900 rpm is relatively slow, is there an improvement using 5 of them.

leeb2013 · Jul 15, 2014

I guess you are referring to speed;

In RAID 0, they can be faster.

anon1239 · Jul 16, 2014

okay thanks

USAFRet · Jul 16, 2014

anon1239 :

Not nearly enough information to give a valid answer.

What drives?
What use?
Why 20TB of 5400 RPM drives?

anon1239 · Jul 16, 2014

nvm they are 7200

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