catkicker Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Are these HD's compatiable with MB's that support up to SATAII http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?...N82E16822148107 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Yes. According to the SATA II specification (do a Google search for SATA II white paper) the interfaces are backwards compatable with SATA I devices. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkicker Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Yes. According to the SATA II specification (do a Google search for SATA II white paper) the interfaces are backwards compatable with SATA I devices. Ace I humbly ask forgiveness for not googling or even trying search button, frankly I was anxious for a answer and to damm lazy to search it out myself. I'm feeling heaping amounts of guilt and ask for your absolution. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Just leave offerings of fresh fruit, vegetables and plenty of ice tea at the front door and all is forgiven. LOL Your best bet would be to get a couple of Hitachi SATA II drives. They are about the same price and perform better. Ace I humbly ask forgiveness for not googling or even trying search button, frankly I was anxious for a answer and to damm lazy to search it out myself. I'm feeling heaping amounts of guilt and ask for your absolution. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkicker Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Ok Ace heres a question for you. Going for a raid0 setup which would be better all around 2 of these http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?...N82E16822144160 or 4 of these http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?...N82E16822145082 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
inphared Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 The WD Raptors in RAID0 is the best setup performance wise The Hitach in RAID0 is almost as good but a lot cheaper You can get about 80-90% of the performance at 1/2 the price if you go with the Hitachis. Its all about what you want to spend. I was asking same question ii a diff thread. Read my question about halfway down the page: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...4#post357324you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Are you looking for the fastest performance you can get? If that is the case, then the 4 Hitachi drives would suit your needs quite well. You must already realize that by running 4 drives it only adds more drives to the array that could possibly fail. My only advice to that is make sure you have a good backup of all your data. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkicker Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Acronis is my friend when it comes to my raid array. Friend of mine is setting up a new computer and picked 2 raptors I suggeted the 4 hitachi's and a 250gig serial ata for storage and backing up raid array. I felt my suggestion was better use of money and great performance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkicker Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 More and more I read this about raid. I know that when I was building my present rig I had to use my other computer without my raid array I was using a 160gig Seagate serial ATA and it drove me nuts that bugger was slow compared to the 2 x 80gig satas raid 0 that I was using. Maybe I'm just stubborn and don't want to give up my raid0. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101&p=1 http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1001325 I think most of this is crap RAID-0's shortcomings are well documented: A) Reduced reliability B) Increased heat/power draw/noise C) Increased system complexity D) Greatly complicated backup and disaster recovery E) Substantially increased cost However, many have tried to justify/overlook those shortcomings by simply saying "It's faster." Anyone who does this is wrong, wasting their money, and buying into hype. Nothing more. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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