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farkedup · 05-11-2008, 05:14 PM

Should I pickedup a pair of $100 640Gb WD drives or the 150Gb raptor drives are in the $175 range and the new 300Gb velociraptor drives are in the $300 range.

Looking around at a few of my old favorite review sites the 640Gb WD isn't all THAT far behind in single drive tests but by time I put it into a RAID I should at least match it in performance and still have over 1Tb of super fast storage. all for ~$200 I know there's plenty of anti-RAID people here but this would mainly be for a linux installation which I keep backups of all important data elsewhere anyway. I have an automated system I put together that sends them to my web server and a local storage drive so the issues of a drive failure aren't going to be all that bad for me.

05-11-2008, 05:14 PM
farkedup Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 2,490	hard drives should I bother with raptor? Should I pickedup a pair of $100 640Gb WD drives or the 150Gb raptor drives are in the $175 range and the new 300Gb velociraptor drives are in the $300 range. Looking around at a few of my old favorite review sites the 640Gb WD isn't all THAT far behind in single drive tests but by time I put it into a RAID I should at least match it in performance and still have over 1Tb of super fast storage. all for ~$200 I know there's plenty of anti-RAID people here but this would mainly be for a linux installation which I keep backups of all important data elsewhere anyway. I have an automated system I put together that sends them to my web server and a local storage drive so the issues of a drive failure aren't going to be all that bad for me. __________________ -- QUOTE ME IT MAKES ME FEEL SPECIAL --