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Bluescreendeath   11-12-2009 at 03:45:53 PM

So I have 3 hard drives:
2 Seagate 7200RPMs with 16mb cache...I believe the latency is around 8.9ms?
and 1 Samsung 7200RPMs with 16mb cache with seek time around 7.2ms?
Both with latency around 4.6-5.0.

Should I keep my current configuration - 2 seagates in RAID0 (main drive with OS) + 1 samsung in non-RAID backup...or would it just be faster to use the 1 Samsung as my main drive and use the 2 seagates as my storage/backup?

I usually move files <100megabytes, and I've heard RAID is not good for file transfer in small chunks.


Message edited by Bluescreendeath on 11-12-2009 at 03:47:35 PM
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saint19   11-12-2009 at 04:41:39 PM

The configuration is good.

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