Hello All,
I am looking for fast load times, fast but "sorta" cheap.
I am building my first computer...eventually...I am trying to find a mother board I like I might just wait a few weeks to see what ASUS comes to offer with the commando and what Abit has to offer with the IN9 32X-Max.
Or I might go buy some currently board...I was going to get the EVGA 680i board but am hesitant due to problems that seem to be coming up.
Anyways back to the hard drives.
I am looking to set up a RAID 0 array for load speeds, I will put the OS and game/program files/photoshop files onto the RAID 0 array. I was just wondering if I should do 2 raptor drives, Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD (are these the "new" 74gb raptor drives???)
or 2 3gb/s drives like the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS
Is the raid 0 array with the Raptors faster then a 3gb/s array? And would a 3gb/s array show significant improvement over a single 3gb/s or raptor drive?
Also if you do RAID 0 that means I would have 148gb to fill if I use the Raptors?
Also I might consider getting 2x 3gb/s drives and put them in a RAID 5 array for photos.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
Eddie
I am looking for fast load times, fast but "sorta" cheap.
I am building my first computer...eventually...I am trying to find a mother board I like I might just wait a few weeks to see what ASUS comes to offer with the commando and what Abit has to offer with the IN9 32X-Max.
Or I might go buy some currently board...I was going to get the EVGA 680i board but am hesitant due to problems that seem to be coming up.
Anyways back to the hard drives.
I am looking to set up a RAID 0 array for load speeds, I will put the OS and game/program files/photoshop files onto the RAID 0 array. I was just wondering if I should do 2 raptor drives, Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD (are these the "new" 74gb raptor drives???)
or 2 3gb/s drives like the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS
Is the raid 0 array with the Raptors faster then a 3gb/s array? And would a 3gb/s array show significant improvement over a single 3gb/s or raptor drive?
Also if you do RAID 0 that means I would have 148gb to fill if I use the Raptors?
Also I might consider getting 2x 3gb/s drives and put them in a RAID 5 array for photos.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
Eddie