red930 Posted April 12, 2005 Posted April 12, 2005 The only thing better than having one Raptor is having two Raptors.And a RAID Zero Array. woof, woof, big dawg time. Not everyone can be the richest man in the entire country of Cantundastan. It's good to be the King! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted April 12, 2005 Posted April 12, 2005 hehehe Now you know I work really hard for my money. And I'm pretty frugal. (except I love toys) so really not that frugal especially with PC stuff Course if you're in this forum it's pretty doubtful you're frugal with PC stuff. And the Hitachi's win HANDS down on value. NO questions. great drives. So here is the question - Would you rather have a pair of 74G Rators in RAID O? Or would you rather have a pair of Hitachi's? just a question. Have a lot O money left over with the Hitachi's. woof, woof Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 Man, I'm so tight, my @ss squeaks when I walk. I actually had a set of 74GB Raptors and decided against them due to the price vs performance curve. When AG tried the Hitachi SATA II drives I knew they were for me. I might even go for a four drive array with the money I saved. I figure I'm getting 90% to 95% of the performance for just about 50% of the cost. That's good in my book. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 I can assure you, there is no way you will feel any difference at all. Plus a 4 drive RAID array. woot! Now that's frugal. hehehe Save the money on the two Hitachi's instead of Raptors and buy 2 more Hitachi's! fugit, buy 2 Hitachi's and 2 Hitachis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 I can assure you, there is no way you will feel any difference at all. Are you refering to my @ss or the array? Plus a 4 drive RAID array. woot! Now that's frugal. hehehe Save the money on the two Hitachi's instead of Raptors and buy 2 more Hitachi's! Just for you! :drool: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyBum Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Here's my first attempt with HD Tach, 2x36GB Raptors XP default with 64k stripe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 @lazybum - Are you on the Sil 3114 or the NV raid controller? Interesting reviews of some hard drives here http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-277-1.htm Raptor and 250G Hitachi do very well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 It would have been nice if he had tested on an nVidia board using the nVidia SATA II controller. The only drive that can take advantage of the full SATA II spec is the Hitachi. We have our own test results to show just how fast the Hitachi drives are even down at the 80GB level. All things being equal in the test, the OS and game load times exhibit the same results as the testing I did over the last few months. It's good to see some consistency from different sources. Note the SATA drives were powered off the Promise PDC20579 which is the first third party controller chip with the SATA-II extensions which means that is has support for NCQ and TCQ, but it does not support the full 300 MB/s bandwidth unlike the Nvidia controllers. It really doesn't make a difference at this point, but I thought I'd mention it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 WD sata and maxtor sata 80+80 Don't know but expected higher read speed using nvidia raid Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 Stripe and Cluster size? what kind of drives? Defragged? OS on Array? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 Striping width: 2 Striping block: 64K Drives: WD 80GB Sata 8MB cache, Maxtor Sata 80GB 8 MB cache Fresh WinXP install, all data wiped before creating RAID Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 Striping width: 2Striping block: 64K Drives: WD 80GB Sata 8MB cache, Maxtor Sata 80GB 8 MB cache Fresh WinXP install, all data wiped before creating RAID The WD drive is limiting the throughput on the array. Since you only have two drives, the stripe width is obviously going to be two. The cluster size which is 4K standard on Windows XP OS and stripe size which is 64K standard on Windows XP OS are the numbers SoundX98 was looking for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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