Raid 0 - Few questions

Epyon · Post by **Epyon** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:55 am

Greetings, as of late, I've had a bit more $ to put into my box, and I've been considering upscaling to a RAID 0 array.

I've been looking around for a day or two at hard drives that would be ideal for an array. I'm not so much worried about capacity, as I am speed.

Capacity wise, I'd be looking for something around 320-640GB.

As for speed/cache, what do you recommend? Do you think a 10k RPM SATA drive with 16MB cache is better than a 7200 RPM SATA drive, with 32MB cache? Which is better for gaming purposes?

Also, which brands do you recommend? I typically go with Seagate for reliability reasons, but I'm open to suggestions across the board.

If anyone could give some input on these questions, I'd be very thankful.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:26 am

Yes 10,000rpm over 7,200rpm regardless of cache.

I love Seagate, also love WDs Raptors. If you want 10k SATA drives....WD Raptors.

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:12 pm

I would also Thank YOSC for helping me with SSD drives in Raid0.

You are the man !

David · Post by **David** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:48 pm

Some of the newer large capacity drive have read/writes that match or even exceed the raptors.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:31 pm

what ever you do, make sure you have good backup solutions in place if running raid-0, just a heads up.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:28 pm

Depending on what you want to do you may want to look at a raid 5 as well.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:55 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Depending on what you want to do you may want to look at a raid 5 as well.

i concur. good speed with some fault tolerance. if it can be budgeted, 3 drives raid 5 is the way to go.

Epyon · Post by **Epyon** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:14 am

For some of the larger capacity drives, I've been hearing about them having some built in maintenance routines or something, to keep track of bad sectors and to correct errors.

And that this built in feature has been causing peoples raid controller to time-out and report a false failure in the array.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I've been looking for a more in-detail analysis.