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Iain1979   07-01-2008 at 10:50:58 PM

I have to SATA HDD RAID STRIPPED! Is it worth adding more drives for speed??

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fleakiller   07-01-2008 at 11:08:29 PM
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Check here to see if it is worth it to you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID hope it helps

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galta   07-01-2008 at 11:26:34 PM
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It depends on the size of the files you're working with.
If they are large enough it's worth for you increase your bandwidth.
If they are small, deterioration in access time may result in poorer results than a single 2-drive RAID0.
For gaming, 2 drives is enough. On a pure performance basis, sometimes it's even worse than a single fast drive, like raptors.

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galta   07-01-2008 at 11:28:40 PM
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By the way, nice system, fleakiller! Have you got one of those exciting 1.2Mb floppy drives?

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fleakiller   07-02-2008 at 05:15:53 AM
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No still have two 360 kb 5 1/4 drives plus one 80 mb hard drive that i payed $324.00 for in 1987

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cjl   07-02-2008 at 06:10:44 AM
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80MB? How will you ever use all that space? :o

(I can actually remember thinking this too, first with 500MB, and then with 6GB, and then with 120GB...)


Message edited by cjl on 07-02-2008 at 06:11:41 AM
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