"Metaphoid" <> wrote in message
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> I'm looking to buy a couple of 80Gb-120Gb drives to set up in a RAID1
array
> on a SerialATA controller. It's obviously going to be considerably
faster
> than a normal IDE single drive setup, so my main concerns are
quietness and
> reliability. Seeing as Barracuda 4s are just about impossible to find
out
> here these days, what else do people recommend that will meet my
criterial.
>
> Barracuda 5s and .7 are common, as are DiamondMax Raptors, Maxtors and
WD
> Caviar SEs. What is likely to be my best bet from these four?
>
>
Last June I setup a RAID0 arrays in my video server, it gave about 25%
increase in performance compared to individual drives. Some 6 months
later I started hearing cluttering noises from the HDD heads. Running
chkdsk (Win2k) constantly reported errors yet surface scans revealed
nothing. I decided that the performance increase was not worth the risk
of loosing all the video files so I reverted back to individual drives.
No cluttering of heads and no errors reported since. Maxtor 80GB FDB
drives BTW. At that point I also introduced Seagate .7 120GB drives (in
order to copy the content of the arrays) and found them to be much
quieter (practically inaudible) and a bit faster than the Maxtors.
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