For my birthday I got another 320Gb SATAII Seagate. Which means I now have 2 in RAID0 setup. This ment my WPI (Windows Performace Index) went from 5.7 to 5.9.
Here are some images of the PC with my new HDD cage and HDD’s in.
Sorry for the bad image, I seem to have lost my others. But you can kind of see it… just.
#1 by Subseeter on June 12, 2009 - 18:55
how much faster is raid 0?
#2 by admin on June 12, 2009 - 19:43
I havn’t really done any benchmarks, should have done, but didn’t! Lol
I know WPI went from 5.7 to 5.9 which is the same as a Raptor 160Gb, so not bad for 2 £40 HDDs
#3 by DannyDirect on June 29, 2009 - 00:22
Nice, I am thinking on RAID0 setup too, just that Im gonna need another VelociRaptor and they aint exactly cheap lol
#4 by admin on June 29, 2009 - 08:31
I would suggest if you have them money at looking at getting a SSD, the improvement will be MASSIVE. You don’t have to just look at the read and write speeds, but the access timings, as SSD’s are very low if not 0. Which is why they are a lot snapper.
Bit-Tech had a good blog post on it here
http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2009/06/18/2009-the-year-to-buy-your-ssd/
A great deal on a 60Gb here
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SAM-SSD64M
2 of those in RAID would be great. If you need the space then another Raptor will be good, but if you can live with 110 Gb then get 2 60Gbs and use the raptor for storing large files that need to open fast.