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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.

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

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

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

You are the man !

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

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

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

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.

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.