I need a decent new hard-drive, not external. I have a few spare bays and i was browsing some sites (newegg, tizer etc) but having not kept up with advancements with HDD's; i am swamped by the variety of different options.
Is there any commerically viable HDD's that have an RPM faster then the average 10,000?
SATA 2, much better then IDE?
Thanks anon, i know its not in your nature to be helpful and i expect my fair share of bullshit but my gratitude to those helpful posters.
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Anonymous2008-02-05 18:48
SSD.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 2:10
Faster than 10K RPM? Take SAS drives with 15K RPM. Somewhat expensive though.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 2:59
youre better off buying several HUEG 7200's and setting up a raid array. it will be faster, cheaper, and moer spaces for you memories.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 6:27
>>4
QFT.
Of course, that requires you sort of know what you're doing, as opposed to just being able to read descriptions on Newegg.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 15:05
OP here:
Raid seems delicate and risky, one drive fails and the other follows suit right? This seems a rather big sacrifice for the improved read speeds.
Whats this mirrored raid ive been hearing about?
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Anonymous2008-02-06 15:24
OP here:
I am a clueless fag and google is too complex for me.
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Single disks seem risky. If one disk fails you have none left, right? This seems a rather big sacrifice for not knowing a fucking thing about RAID.
Fastest drives are the 15k SAS and u320 drives, but good luck finding them for a desktop, or with an affordable price tag. Best bet is 2 cheetah 10k rpm SATA2 drives in a raid 1+0, and a decent raid controller behind them.