S-Ata or IDE Raid 0

[Kahless]

I have an Abit NF7-S 2.0. Right now I have two older 40gig IBM 60GXP IDE drives connected to the S-ATA raid controller with the abit seriellel adapter.

I just got as a gift from a friend a WD Caviar 8mb cache 160gig S-Ata drive in the mail. What I want to know is can I use the single drive on the raid controller as non raid of course? Would this be faster then my two old IBM drives in raid 0? I did a benchmark of my old raid 0 with sci soft sandra (I know its not the best benchmark for that) and it did score considerably higher then a comparablye 120 gig s-ata drive.

 

[folken]

Wow, you still have some working 40gb IBM drives! That is a truly astounding feat.

A single 160gb drive will probably be a tad slower than your raid 0 IBM drives but the data security will be much higher. I wouldn't trust my data on a single 40gb IBM much less a raid 0 of them.

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[Kahless]

They have been running just fine for probably 4 to 5 years at least

 

[folken]

that is crazy.
you must be the luckiest person in the world, lol.

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[khha4113]

I also have 2 of these IBM 40GB (60GXP) too that being setup as RAID-0 for about 4 years(?), and they're still working great. As a matter of fact, the only 1 IBM I used had failed was 120GXP (Hitachi) more than 1 year ago, but it's not defective. When I mounted it into the case the screw was stuck and broken, and I had to use hammer to take it out. After that, my comp was no longer recognized it. RMA'ed it and received a new one few weeks later. Today, it's still working (main drive) on the computer I'm writing this.

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[Kahless]

Yeah I remember reading about their high failure rate. Found about that after I bought them.