2 IDEs in RAID vs 1 SATAII

[darthjones]

One 7200 RPM SATA II HDD or Two 7200 RPM Hard Drives in Striped Raid Array for Boot Drive?

I'm trying to figure out which setup will give me a faster startup time for my operating system and programs. Are SATA II so advanced these that they eclipse IDE based Raid arrays in terms of speed? I'm using the onboard Raid controller in my motherboard (Asus P5ND2-SLI Delux) if that helps. Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

There's no big difference between SATA-1 and SAT-II right now. Also you have to be carefull about SATA-II name, compagny use it in a misleading way. The real name is SATA-IO, it fateure 300mB/s transfer, NCQ, hot swap, and I beleive one or more feature I forgot. Compagny can call their drive SATA-II when they support 300 mB/s, and none of the above feature...(but SATA-II is also used when all the features are there!So look carefully)

Thats said, no modern drive will do more than 60 meg seq in sequential access! Thus Ata 133 is enough for all the drive.

I personally feel two drive in raid0 is faster in load time, wether its booting windows or loading games.

Finally consider the size of the cable for the airflow in the case, and the higher failure potential of the 2X drive versus a single one.

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[mozzartusm]

2 X RAID 0

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[shawnlizzle =]]

one thing to point out is that, RAID doesn't make a higher chance of a drive failure, having MORE drives increase the chance.

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[Guest]

yeah good poitn I wasnt really clear on that, altought one could argue that having 2 drives in a small case with bad airflow would make the drives more prone to failur

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[pat]

If you buy 2 drive and one is going to be defective is no better than buying the one drive that is going to fail..

I have 4 HDD in my small case, and 2 set as RAID, and I have small airflow, but airflow anyway.. and never had a single problem

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[jclw]

A 74GB Raptor would be the fastest boot drive.

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[mozzartusm]

My 2 maxtors in RAID0 boot faster than my 74G raptor.

ASUS P5WD2 Premium
Intel 3.73 EE @ 5.6Ghz
XMS2 DDR2 @ 1180Mhz

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