Raptor 74G vs raided raptor 36G

[CSRookie]

I am building a gaming machine. I am wondering which HDD setup is better, a single WD Raptor 74G or 2 WD Raptor 36G with raid? Did anyone tested these two settings?

 

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[silverpig]

There won't be much of a difference at all. Gaming only relies on the hard drives to load the levels. It'd be close anyways. 2 36 GB drives in raid 0 would have a higher transfer rate on large files, but the seek time on the single 74 GB drive would be much better.

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[Xeon]

*blink-blink* You will notice the extra throughput and responce time.

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[jammydodger]

If you play games and surf the net then get the 74gig, you will notice that much more than u will notice RAID.

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[silverpig]

The response time will be slower for the raid 0 array. Quite a bit slower actually. Seeks on raid 0 arrays are slower than on single disks, and the seek time on a single 74 GB raptor is already faster than on a 36 GB raptor. File transfer speeds will be better on the array though. All and all for gaming it should average out.

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[davemar14]

Just remember, by having an array in RAID 0, if one drives fails, the whole array is gone. Therefore you lose everything. But then again, you are talking about Raptors. They are made for reliability. I would personally go for the single 74 GB.

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[jammydodger]

Yeh but if he buys one drive and that fails he has also lost everything. But yeh you are right the Raptor drives have a three year warrenty and are made to be reliable.

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[silverpig]

My 74 gig has a 5 year warranty.

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[davemar14]

Yea, I thought they had a five year warranty. The Special Editon Western Digital's have a three year warranty. Ex. 800JB, 1200JB

 

[jammydodger]

My bad

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[Xeon]

So do the 36's.

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