Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives

Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using 2x
160GB > SATAII

Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget is
about 60 quid

seen this one from Amazon ...
Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive
£30.99



thanks for looking

doddie wrote:
> Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using
> 2x 160GB > SATAII
>
> Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget
> is about 60 quid
>
> seen this one from Amazon ...
> Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive
> £30.99
>
> thanks for looking

nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo !

I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system.

To get really reliable then budget for an enterprise class sata drive.



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Brownz (Mobile) wrote:
> doddie wrote:
>
>> Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using
>> 2x 160GB > SATAII
>>
>> Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget
>> is about 60 quid
>>
>> seen this one from Amazon ...
>> Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive
>> £30.99
>>
>> thanks for looking
>>
>
> nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo !
>
> I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system.
>
> To get really reliable then budget for an enterprise class sata drive.
>
>
>
>
Ehh - why not Maxtor? He needs to test his RAID so a perfect solution!

kony wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:46:26 GMT, "Brownz \(Mobile\)"
> <> wrote:
>
>
>> doddie wrote:
>>
>>> Got a Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 DS3 REV2 wanting to setup a raid using
>>> 2x 160GB > SATAII
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend make/model of drives to get, reliable? my budget
>>> is about 60 quid
>>>
>>> seen this one from Amazon ...
>>> Maxtor 250GB S/ATA2 7200rpm 8MB Cache, SATA 300 Hard Drive
>>> £30.99
>>>
>>> thanks for looking
>>>
>> nnngggg - maxtor - noooooo !
>>
>> I would be looking at Hitachi or Samsung if it were my system.
>>
>
> Ironically, that is a Seagate designed and manufactured
> drive with a Maxtor label. Haven't you kept up with the
> state of affairs after Maxtor was bought by Seagate?
>
>
what is? the hitachi or the samsung - neither to my knowledge!

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:30:03 +0100, "doddie" <> wrote:
<snip>
>
>So raid 0 the way to go for now, will there be much speed increase compared
>to single drive?
>
>
>Specs...
>
>Intel Duo E8200 oc to 3.2 ghz
>2GB Crucial
>512mb Asus 8800 GT TOP
>XP
>
>Thanks for all the replys :-)
>

I'd really be interested to hear back from you as to whether you
actually see any speed improvement. I had a RAID 0 setup on a board
several years ago (dual PATA drives, not SATA) and I found it just a
bother, with no descernable improvement at all. I now have a
RAID-capable board but haven't tired setting RAID up, since my
previous experience was disappointing.

--
Charlie Hoffpauir
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kony wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:24:13 GMT, DCA
> <> wrote:
>
>
>
>>> Ironically, that is a Seagate designed and manufactured
>>> drive with a Maxtor label. Haven't you kept up with the
>>> state of affairs after Maxtor was bought by Seagate?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> what is? the hitachi or the samsung - neither to my knowledge!
>>
>
> Where in the world do you get Samsung from? The Maxtor is a
> Seagate, it is fairly common knowledge among those who kept
> up with such things.
>
Yes - I know