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Catman224   08-18-2009 at 05:13:59 AM

How are the western digital 320gb in raid 0 will be running two any better for around 70-80$ more for both drives?

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WD recommends their "RAID Edition" ("RE" ) HDDs
for all RAID arrays: cf. "Time Limited Error Recovery":

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/pro [...] anguage=en


And, you'll get much better performance from RAID arrays
assembled with HDDs that use PMR (perpendicular magnetic
recording) and 32MB cache.


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mindless728   08-18-2009 at 06:08:06 AM

well just make sure you get the AAKS models (i think they are the WD Blue) as those are single platter 320GB

if you get the ones i suggest then the performance will be the same as the 640GB WD Blue and close to either the 640 Black or 1TB Black

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MRFS   08-18-2009 at 06:22:20 PM
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WD recommends their "RAID Edition" ("RE" ) HDDs
for all RAID arrays: cf. "Time Limited Error Recovery":

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/pro [...] anguage=en


And, you'll get much better performance from RAID arrays
assembled with HDDs that use PMR (perpendicular magnetic
recording) and 32MB cache.


MRFS

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Catman224   08-18-2009 at 06:40:05 PM

how are the WD RE3 (32 MB Cache) drives?

Id be using these for a gaming computer

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rand_79   08-19-2009 at 07:45:53 PM

I've been using 3 seagate 7200.12 (500gb) in a raid 0 for 6 months with no problems so far. (its just for performance everything is backed up.)

I get between about 400MB/s to 275MB/sec

they go for about 50$ each usually

oh and the raid controller is the intel ich9r

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daship   08-21-2009 at 12:50:05 AM

The intel drives are way faster at random access. 70% faster. You wont often be using big file, mostly samll files so the Intels are the best.


OCZ is good, I had some, but after I saw some reviews I sold them and I am getting some Intel drives now. OCZ requires lots of tweaks, Intel dont.

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Catman224   08-21-2009 at 02:12:58 AM

How is the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820167005
I plan on putting my OS on it and games

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