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My friend said I made a bad choice..Did I?

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DodoFingers

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Jun 24, 2004
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Holas,
I recently purchased a new drive to run in raid 0 with my old one. Had my friend come over and help me set it up, he says i dumb for buying these two drives when i could have bought a fast 10,000 scsi drive or a WD thingy. I tried to tell him running my ata133's in raid 0 is faster than one stand alone drive. Am i right or wrong?
 
With riad O, harware wise you have twice the failure rate of a single drive; the Os gets involved in this which adds more of a chance of failure. Extra speed is nice but not at this cost
 
technome,
Not sure I completely agree with you. The tradeoff between high performance and lower reliability with RAID 0 is actually not as bad as you make it out to be. Regardless if you have a single drive or use two drives striped, you should be backing up regularly. Plus, a cheap solution is to add another drive outside of the array with a lot of space for backing up (it doesn't have to be an expensive & fast drive).

DodoFingers,
I wouldn't worry about it too much. The downside of going with a fast 10,000RPM IDE drive is space. Not only are you paying a premium, but you are also getting roughly half the size if not less. And like you said, an efficient RAID array can easily have better seek times.


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