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Raid 0 or a 7200 RPM Drive?

post #1 of 11
12/9/03 at 9:17pm
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I am having trouble deciding whether to get two 60 gig 5400 rpm drives configured with raid 0 or one 60 gig 7200 rpm drive. I cannot afford two 7200 rpm drives. What do you think would be faster?
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post #2 of 11
12/9/03 at 9:26pm
i went with 1 60 gb 5400 rpm and will add another later when i cAN afford it in a raid 0 config. I would think thats the best bet because u get 120gb of storage and a drive i would assume no slower than a 7200rpm 60 gb.
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post #3 of 11
12/9/03 at 10:22pm
the 60GB 7200RPM drive has an 8MB cache though...not sure if that means much to you.
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post #4 of 11
12/9/03 at 10:26pm
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Originally Posted by citgo566
I am having trouble deciding whether to get two 60 gig 5400 rpm drives configured with raid 0 or one 60 gig 7200 rpm drive. I cannot afford two 7200 rpm drives. What do you think would be faster?
I would go with two 5400 with raid instead of one 7200 rpm hard drive. I believe you would get better performance that way and, obviously, more space.
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post #5 of 11
12/9/03 at 10:58pm
I agree with Wisefish. The "real" speed difference between the 5400 and 7200 RPM units is not that great - especially if you go with the Raid 0 configuration. Just don't go to the 4200 RPM units as there is really a significant slow down in speed if you do.
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post #6 of 11
12/9/03 at 11:53pm
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Originally Posted by G-Omaha
I agree with Wisefish. The "real" speed difference between the 5400 and 7200 RPM units is not that great - especially if you go with the Raid 0 configuration. Just don't go to the 4200 RPM units as there is really a significant slow down in speed if you do.
What about the 8 mb cache compared to the 2 mb cache? Is that going to affect it that much? I am looking for the best gaming performance possible.

Also on a side note.

Are the new 3.4 and 3.6 Ghz processors going to include hyperthreading or not?
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post #7 of 11
12/10/03 at 12:00am
The cache difference will cause a slight degradation in performance. For games, this would normally be limited to "load times" - minimal. For Data base access, the degradation would be much more evident. Generally, you probably will not notice the difference for gaming; however, may observe it for processes that require huge amounts of data (maybe DIVX to DVD rendering - type of thing as well as Heavy Data Base access).

The new processors should be HT enabled.
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post #8 of 11
12/10/03 at 4:31am
I found this link at Powernotebooks (Sager reseller), and it talks about setting up RAID on a Sager: http://www.powernotebooks.com/articles/raid.php
They give a lot of information on different configurations. Say speed increase for RAID not faster when comparing RAID on two 4200rpms compared to one 7200rpm. Not sure about 5400rpms in RAID, though. Check it out.

Jepp
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post #9 of 11
12/10/03 at 6:06am
So for stuff like video editing and encoding. It would be best bet to get the higher rpm and bigger cache?
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post #10 of 11
12/10/03 at 8:38am
i am not gonna go that far. I read in a forum when searching google that cache size does not make a big impact on performance. I read that twice then just trusted it because it made sense to me. You're talking about a 60,000 mb hard drive and the difference between 2mb cache and 8mb cache,... I think there will be a performance difference, but not one so obvious that you wish you went with the larger cache size. I will stand by what i said with the 2 5400rpm hdd. Just because that makes close to or more than a 7200rpm hard drive and doubles the space. If you're big on editing you know you need a lot of space, so I would say go with the 2 54's
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post #11 of 11
12/11/03 at 9:57pm
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Originally Posted by ryanniedz
i am not gonna go that far. I read in a forum when searching google that cache size does not make a big impact on performance. I read that twice then just trusted it because it made sense to me. You're talking about a 60,000 mb hard drive and the difference between 2mb cache and 8mb cache,... I think there will be a performance difference, but not one so obvious that you wish you went with the larger cache size. I will stand by what i said with the 2 5400rpm hdd. Just because that makes close to or more than a 7200rpm hard drive and doubles the space. If you're big on editing you know you need a lot of space, so I would say go with the 2 54's

Thanks guys...
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