Which is better, 2 40GB 7200rpm or 1 80GB 5400 rpm?

[Isos]

All Maxtor drives and ATA100.

[Szech]

Hook up those two 40 gig hard drives in a RAID 0 setup, and you'll have a blistering fast 80 gig drive!

[thekingofpain]

Simply said by Szech---I recommend Calamine lotion for the blisters...

[Isos]

Thanks for the replies. So 2 40GB is better than 1. What is RAID0? Is that available as an add on to any computer?

[NDC]

A Raid card is a PCI interface card that you can plug into your PCI port on your mainboard.

Look here for info on the different kinds of RAID that was posted by qball:
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/007859.html

[OuTpaTienT]

The two 40Gb'ers are the way to go. Even without the RAID setup they will be faster. With the RAID 0, they'll be extremely faster.

[bdunn]

Go SCSI and get the 10000rpm drive

[LiLRiceBoi]

the two 40's is a much better solution. besides using raid w/ them...the 80 gb is only 5400 rpm

[This message has been edited by LiLRiceBoi (edited 12-04-2000).]