Most Reliable 300-320gb SATA disk?

[AllThingsGreek]

I'm going to be striping 4 300-320 GB disks in RAID 0.

Does anyone have a recommendation for which brand and/or model I should go with?

Thanks.

 

[1Tanker]

I'm going to be striping 4 300-320 GB disks in RAID 0.

Does anyone have a recommendation for which brand and/or model I should go with?

Thanks.

Definetely...4 of these.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003

GL

 

[The_Prophecy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140

These are pretty good too...

 

[Clob]

I 2nd the Seagate... Fast, New tec, 5 year warranty... Runs a little warm so keep a fan over them

 

[haha103]

reliable? raid 0 is not a good choice


for HDs, i think seagate 7200.10 is almost the fastest in 7200rpm series

and Maxtor MaxLine series is much better for its reliablity regarding its MTBF.

 

[qwertycopter]

Def. recommend the seagate. It's better value and PRT should decrease the wear on the drive somewhat. Also consider turning on NCQ if you will be doing a lot of I/O.

 

[AllThingsGreek]

Def. recommend the seagate. It's better value and PRT should decrease the wear on the drive somewhat. Also consider turning on NCQ if you will be doing a lot of I/O.

What are the PROs and CONs of having NCQ on/off?

 

[Clob]

I jsut got my Seagate 7200.10 320 and I can say it is fast! Makes me wonder if I realy need a raptor now 8) It seems to blow away my old WD120 in all out speed and access times!

 

[chuckshissle]

Western Digital Caviar SE.

 

[Crashman]

Caviar RE drives are exceptional deals now, I'm seeing 300GB for $89.

 

[1Tanker]

Def. recommend the seagate. It's better value and PRT should decrease the wear on the drive somewhat. Also consider turning on NCQ if you will be doing a lot of I/O.

What are the PROs and CONs of having NCQ on/off?In most desktop apps, NCQ actually hurts performance minutely. For some reason, it seems to have a benefit on Maxtors drives though. :?

 

[qwertycopter]

Well to me it doesn't sound like he's going to use them for desktop applications, but I guess we should let him answer that.

You want to use NCQ when the drives are going to have multiple read/write requests simultaneously and often. An example is in a server environment - applications, storage, back-ups, etc will benefit with NCQ's optimized read/write patterns. Also, if you were doing something like high-end video/audio processing, especially with multitasking on a multicore processor, then NCQ would also show increased performance (not to mention less wear on the drive). It works by intelligently/logically scheduling read/write requests so that the platters spin less and the arms do work more efficiently per revolution.

If you're using them for basic desktop apps, nothing really heavy, then NCQ can decrease performance because the scheduling logic increases latency overhead.