WD Raptor 10k RPM

[Animal_Mother]

Hiya all,

With regards to the WD Raptor if two are setup in Raid is it basicaly one hard drive @ 20,000 RPM?

And is it worth it?

Also could ne one recomend a SATA HDD that is a good make and about 40-80GB with an 8mb cache, also at a good price (£),


Cheers

--Pete--

[Sterling_Aug]

No, it is one BIG drive at 10,000 rpm's with half of the data stored on one drive and half of the data on the other drive. So data backup becomes a much bigger concern. If either drive fails, you lose ALL of the data.

In my opinion, software RAID (such as Highpoint onboard IDE RAID) is NOT worth the risk of losing data. A better solution is two seperate drives with the second drive being an exact duplicate of the first drive (using Ghost or similar program).

I use an Adaptec hardware RAID board with SCSI drives in a RAID5 setup.

SCSI RAID is not for everyone and is more expensive.