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Title: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: ipodminiman on November 26, 2010, 09:27:02 AM Hello everyone, Im looking to purchase 2 or 3 of a single hard drive to raid together and was having some trouble deciding which to get.
I think its between: Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0350291 Spinpoint F3 http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0340804 Barracuda 7200.12 http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0331720 Im looking for drives that are fast and reliable and will be very fast in RAID. Im doing some HD capturing and I need the read/write speeds of the RAID to be pretty high. The caviar blue is the cheapest, but Ive heard that the F3 is the fastest. Im hoping to hear what you guys think. Thanks! Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: brarei200 on November 26, 2010, 09:57:59 AM Links don't work...
and you can get a 2TB External for less than $100 Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: ipodminiman on November 26, 2010, 10:00:13 AM Links don't work... and you can get a 2TB External for less than $100 OOPS! Fixed. I know that, but in this case Im looking for speed over space. Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: kevipapo1 on November 26, 2010, 10:28:18 AM Consider SSD before tossing money at the same 2 or 3 drives.
Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: ipodminiman on November 26, 2010, 10:30:55 AM Consider SSD before tossing money at the same 2 or 3 drives. I did, but then I realized that for HD video, SSD's dont have enough space. Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: Haloruler64 on November 26, 2010, 11:38:20 AM WD Caviar Blacks. Great speeds for me
Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: ipodminiman on November 27, 2010, 11:16:03 AM WD Caviar Blacks. Great speeds for me Couldent afford them, I got the F3's instead. They work great so far [knock on wood] and I can hit ALMOST 400mb/s write speeds! Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: rokrboy on November 27, 2010, 11:22:42 AM NO. SSD's in Raid don't support trim and wear out fast. Well a few do, but they are few and far between.
Samsung F3's are what I woulda reccomended. They are absolutely great drives, the 1tb I have in my htpc works great especially for storage. Personally the only thing I'd get an ssd for is a boot drive, otherwise I don't trust em much. What kind of budget do you have for this? What kind of RAID array did you end up putting them in? Title: Re: Best Harddrives For RAID? Post by: Haloruler64 on November 27, 2010, 01:25:36 PM I hate SSD's, expensive, small, and really for most uses no real world difference in performance. My WD Caviar Black 500GB and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 High Performance 1.5TB drives are perfect.
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