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gowens   07-29-2008 at 05:08:20 PM

I scanned the board and didn't see a similar question, so if I missed it, please forgive me.

I'm replacing an old PC (p4 2Ghz) with this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] Q7M6XP1zOg

(AMD x2 5000 black; 4gb RAM, barebones kit with 2 SATA connectors and RAID support) and want to set up a RAID 0 config with the best bang for the buck drives.

Any thoughts on what brand(s) and sizes are the best? I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 250-500gb per is the sweet spot for value.

For what it's worth I'm planning on using an external USB 2 250gb drive for backup.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

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smartel7070   07-29-2008 at 05:29:40 PM
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Well I would suggest a raid0 setup like the one I have which is 2 x 500gb seagate 7200.11 32mb cache. Not too noisy and very fast.

BTW very good idea to have a ext. hdd as a backup drive. That way your raid0 can fail at any time but you won't loose your data if you do regular backups !

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gowens   07-29-2008 at 05:35:05 PM
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thank you. what utility do you use for backups? can i use Acronis for backing up the drives to an external USB drive?

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gowens   07-29-2008 at 05:38:33 PM
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geez, those drives are quite a bit more than other 500gb drives...i'm looking for best bang-for-the-buck versus best performance. anything else that anyone can recommend?

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can007   07-29-2008 at 05:44:10 PM
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Those drives are VERY FAST!!! I own two of those, so I know its performance.

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smartel7070   07-29-2008 at 05:45:31 PM
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Are you in the US ? I just checked on Newegg and they are the same price as other 500gb hdd's, maybe 4,5$ more http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148288.

And for backups I do them manually. I don't have that much data to backup anyways.


Message edited by smartel7070 on 07-29-2008 at 05:46:52 PM
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gowens   07-29-2008 at 06:28:47 PM
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yes, i'm in the US. is there a big difference in SATA 3.0 (which the mobo supports) and other versions? also, is there significant performance dif'c between Seagate's 7200.11 drives and others that cost less?

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