Well, seeing as how I've got to re-install W2K Server, re-create a domain/controller, active directory, exchange server etc etc etc on my new mobo setup ( ) I thought I might get a couple of little HDDs to stick on the ATA133 RAID bit of it...

So - recomendations? I'm not going above 40Gb as I'm not a great user of space & want as cheap as poss... 7200 over 5400 would be nice but not the be-all/end-all & what difference in real world use?

Also, RAID-0 or RAID-1? I would be inclined for the mirroring option for data-security over speed but what else?

It'll be a cracking little machine when its finished - just wish it hadn't been necessary

 

Why? Its a test box...... pfffft

Oh I suppose being a "geek" you have to do these things Thats why I run raid5 on scsi controllers

 

As far as i know only Maxtor do ATA133 at the moment (last time i looked anyway )
I did some test in Sisoft sandra with some hard drives and found that a 5400 ATA133 hard drive was faster than a 7200 ATA100 hard drive , so if money is an issue the slower 133 will be faster.
of course a ATA7200 will be faster again but cost more.

Andy

 

http://www.storagereview.com/ for reviews and the ability to compare drives...

 

ATA133 offers no performace benefit over ATA100 because PC's don't even utilise all the available bandwidth at ATA100. Your best bet will be an ATA100 7200 drive such as an IBM or Seagate.

 

If noise is a concern, i'd go for the Seagate Barracude 4...

If not, IBM deathstar...

 

I have a Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm HD, cant fault it either
Its very quiet (even with the case open) and definately one to look at if your thinking of getting a new H/D.

Tony

 

The faster RPM can make a hue difference. If you compare the 10K to 15K drives then you can see throughput improvements of 90% providing the reads/writes are long serial reads - eg video playback. If you are mainly performing random access to the drive then a larger array controller cache would be much more benneficial - databases can be greatly improved by using the predictive read ahead functions of an array controller.

Raid 0 vs Raid 1. I'd be tempted to go for Raid 1 for availability reasons. Raid 0 IMHO should only be used for maximum performance when you don't need availability.


Phil

 

2x Maxtor ATA133 30Gb 7200s sitting in my car, ready for this evening

Might as well have some pleasure out of the poxy mobo situ

 

Puff

If your pleasures lead to pox, then there are other BBSs you should be looking at

Deano