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<sarcasm>
I'm building a new gaming rig and could do either 1 10K RPM Twinkie, or do 2x chocolate cupcakes in a RAID-0. Which is better/faster?
Supposedly in the twinkie you get faster access to the cream filling, but the cupcakes deliver more sustained chocolate rate.
So what should I do?
</sarcasm>
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really getting tired of all the X vs. Y hard drive/RAID threads.
The truthful answer is that no one has the exact answers to these scenarios because no one has tested that particular combination of hard drives/RAIDs against each other.
Here's my opinion on this: If you're in the majority, which is a gamer or general Internet/e-mail user, RAID-0 is probably not worth it to you for speed purposes. A fast single drive (10K Raptor) will probably work better if all you're interested in is speed. If you're really interested in speed and have the money, a single 15K SCSI/SAS drive will be even faster.
If you want some type of data redundancy and protection against a hard drive failure, then RAID-1 or RAID-5 may be an option for you, depending on the importance that the data redundancy has against other factors, like cost and performance.
If you're in a minority of users with certain specific application requirements (video editing, audio editing, DVD authoring, graphics work), then RAID-0 may net you a performance benefit, and whether it's worth it depends on the importance that the performance has against other factors, like cost and risk of data loss.
Please, I don't want this thread to turn into yet another RAID vs. Raptor debate. That subject has been hashed to death in countless other threads, and the general conclusions are what I stated above.
So gamers, do yourself a favor. Get a Raptor, buy a pack of Twinkies, have some cream filling, load BF2, and quit worrying about it.
I'm building a new gaming rig and could do either 1 10K RPM Twinkie, or do 2x chocolate cupcakes in a RAID-0. Which is better/faster?
Supposedly in the twinkie you get faster access to the cream filling, but the cupcakes deliver more sustained chocolate rate.
So what should I do?
</sarcasm>
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really getting tired of all the X vs. Y hard drive/RAID threads.
The truthful answer is that no one has the exact answers to these scenarios because no one has tested that particular combination of hard drives/RAIDs against each other.
Here's my opinion on this: If you're in the majority, which is a gamer or general Internet/e-mail user, RAID-0 is probably not worth it to you for speed purposes. A fast single drive (10K Raptor) will probably work better if all you're interested in is speed. If you're really interested in speed and have the money, a single 15K SCSI/SAS drive will be even faster.
If you want some type of data redundancy and protection against a hard drive failure, then RAID-1 or RAID-5 may be an option for you, depending on the importance that the data redundancy has against other factors, like cost and performance.
If you're in a minority of users with certain specific application requirements (video editing, audio editing, DVD authoring, graphics work), then RAID-0 may net you a performance benefit, and whether it's worth it depends on the importance that the performance has against other factors, like cost and risk of data loss.
Please, I don't want this thread to turn into yet another RAID vs. Raptor debate. That subject has been hashed to death in countless other threads, and the general conclusions are what I stated above.
So gamers, do yourself a favor. Get a Raptor, buy a pack of Twinkies, have some cream filling, load BF2, and quit worrying about it.
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