HappyVirus

Hi, I'm looking to order my rig pretty soon, and will order the parts by end of this month. I have almost everything set, except for the HDs.

This is my rig:
q6600, ASUS P5N-T, 2x2 G. Skill, GTS x2 being the main parts.

I was thinking a raptor 150g OEM as my drive which is about 175. As I was browsing again, just to make sure I don't regret my choice, I hear that with newer drives, just a raid0 will perform better and have more space.

Now I hear the downsides of the raids, and the kinds of raids, though I have never done raid before....

How's those HD's? I hear 0+1 raid was good in performance and safety
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144701
so 4 of those in raid 0+1 should perform better? I'm not sure if I'm correct but...can somebody direct me in the right way? thanks

GoneTomorrow

I've been using the same two Raptors (36GB and 64 GB) for a few years now and they still work great. The Raptor is a great drive.

There's no reason to do RAID striping; gaming doesn't need that kind of transfer speed.

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Mun1688

If I were you I would get three or four (if you can afford) of these.....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148262

They will give u a lot more storage space than a Raptor, and will also be faster than a single raptor (If you have the 4 drives in a RAID 0 config).

EDIT: The 7200.10 drives are going to run cooler and faster than the drive u pointed out.

Iconoclast

WRONG. A raid 0 setup helps load times hugely and drastically reduces the time it takes to reboot.

I'd go with two Seagate 250gb. I'm not a big fan of the Western Digital's 9at least they're caviars), plus I think the seagate's are cheaper. I think two 250gb seagates will set you back $120 and then you can get another one for safer storage (in the odd chance your raid goes sour).

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HappyVirus

So I would have two seagate 250 in raid 0, then another for just storage? Because I already have an old 300gb(?) HD that I stole from my brother's gateway I was gonna use that for my storage and buy that raptor 150 for OS, and all the programs...

so my new option now is.....Seagate 250gb in raid 0...

How's raid 0+1 ? That requires 4 HD's but is it worth it over all these?
I also saw these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148288

Heard 32mb of cache performs well...

pow3rtr1p

I would get 2 of the 500 GB Seagate Barracudas with 32MB Cache. The Perpendicular Recording Technology they use greatly increases seek times. They have double the Cache of most drives, even Raptors, which is a huge performance boost. Plus, some 750GB 7200 RPM drives have been shown to outrun Raptors in some Apps. If you had 2 500GB Drives in a RAID-0 array, it would have plenty of storage, and would perform extremely fast.

These are what I was thinking: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148288

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Penicilyn

I'd go with two of these badboys in RAID0

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148288

pow3rtr1p

Penicilyn, you have good taste

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HappyVirus

Haha I guess the Seagate 500gb ones are pretty decent eh? Hm...maybe