I have an 80gb WD 8mb cache 8.9ms HD right now, in my server. I want more. The 80gb is about 2 years old i belive. I've seen another one for $34.99 after rebate and i could get a raid card for $16.99. Same hard drive just new.
OR i saw a 160gb segate with 8mb cache 8.5ms for $50 after rebate. which i could just add to the 80gb still have two hard drives now with 50% more space but no raid.
about same price
80GB more vs RAID
(I would run striping by the way)
Which is a better idea, how much faster would the raid be considering both of these hardrives are ata100 and are going in a 1600+ AMD with 1gb of ram. which needs to run xp and fedora core 2 (so i would need to have two partions, would like to have three. for both setups)
OR i saw a 160gb segate with 8mb cache 8.5ms for $50 after rebate. which i could just add to the 80gb still have two hard drives now with 50% more space but no raid.
about same price
80GB more vs RAID
(I would run striping by the way)
Which is a better idea, how much faster would the raid be considering both of these hardrives are ata100 and are going in a 1600+ AMD with 1gb of ram. which needs to run xp and fedora core 2 (so i would need to have two partions, would like to have three. for both setups)