Chickenmon
Weaksauce
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2004
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So after reading anandtech, storagereview and max pc latest issue I find out my expsenive raid 0 array is actually nothing but a gimmick. I must say it does feel faster but the benches look like its just in my head. I have 2 wd raptor 36 gigs, 1 maxtor 250 gig 7200 8 meg and 1 80 gig special edition wd.
I would like to have all my apps and os on the 250 gig for simpliticitys sake, and all my downloads and various crap im working on on the 80 gig. So then I have 2 36 gig raptors to small to be useful to fast to be considered crap. Should I just pull these drives from my computer and give my powersupply a break or should a setup a raid1 and keep all my most important files on them?
I do realize using 1 of those raptor drives for my os would be the fastest way to go but 36 gig is just to small to be useful to me when I will have about 100 gigs of games and apps loaded.
I feel like a sucker and blame it on hardocp and maximumpc for not doing thier homework before pimping a new idea. I thought I did my homework before I made the purchase by reading up on the technology via hardocp and maxpc plus all the people in the forums proclaiming raid 0 is god.
I would like to have all my apps and os on the 250 gig for simpliticitys sake, and all my downloads and various crap im working on on the 80 gig. So then I have 2 36 gig raptors to small to be useful to fast to be considered crap. Should I just pull these drives from my computer and give my powersupply a break or should a setup a raid1 and keep all my most important files on them?
I do realize using 1 of those raptor drives for my os would be the fastest way to go but 36 gig is just to small to be useful to me when I will have about 100 gigs of games and apps loaded.
I feel like a sucker and blame it on hardocp and maximumpc for not doing thier homework before pimping a new idea. I thought I did my homework before I made the purchase by reading up on the technology via hardocp and maxpc plus all the people in the forums proclaiming raid 0 is god.