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Bump. Just want to see what you guys think of this setup. Trying to pull the trigger on the purchase soon.
1) 160GB - WD Raptor 10000RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache . This will be my main drive. 2) 1TB - Hitachi 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 32MB Cache. This will be my secondary drive - where I store mostly music, video, and poker database backups. |
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Bump. Just want to see what you guys think of this setup. Trying to pull the trigger on the purchase soon. 1) 160GB - WD Raptor 10000RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache . This will be my main drive. 2) 1TB - Hitachi 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 32MB Cache. This will be my secondary drive - where I store mostly music, video, and poker database backups. [/ QUOTE ] Looks fine (if not overkill). Just remember to install your OS, programs, and your database on the raptor. |
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I went this same route and am v. happy with it.
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RAID 0 gives you a disk throughput advantage (although not latency), but doubles the risk of data loss. [/ QUOTE ] It is actually a little less than double your risk, but what is the failure rate HDDs these days? |
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[ QUOTE ] RAID 0 gives you a disk throughput advantage (although not latency), but doubles the risk of data loss. [/ QUOTE ] It is actually a little less than double your risk, but what is the failure rate HDDs these days? [/ QUOTE ] Brings me back to statistics class, but either way the failure rate of a drive is >> 0, and it isn't just the hard drives. I have seen many reports of those onboard RAID controllers corrupting drives, because they are cheap and crappy. And looking at the setup, it looks great. Using a higher RPM drive for the OS/application drive is a smart move, and will make your computer feel faster due to the lower latency. However with the 2nd drives bigger cache and I'm guessing higher throughput, I wouldn't be surprised if your database runs faster on it. |
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