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I am considering adding 2 hard drives to my system in a Raid 0
configuration using the Promise controller built into my P4C800E
Deluxe MB. I am not sure what hard drives I should purchase for this
though. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Ideally I would like to add two 250+Gb hard drives and have them
appear in XP Pro as one large volume. After reading many of the
threads in this forum, I am confused. Should I purchase 2 SATA drives
or 1 SATA and 1 PATA. What will give me the best performance using
the built in Promise raid controller?
Right now I am leaning towards 2 Western Digital 250Gb SATA 7200 rpm
w/8mb cache (WD2500JD). Are these drives going to hold up in a RAID
environment? Is it worth the extra $ for the Caviar RAID Edition
Series (WD2500SD)? These drives are going to be installed on a
workstation (not a server) so they won't be under heavy use all the
time. Should I be looking at a different manufacturer?
Here is my system configuration (purchased the end of May) as it
stands now:
Motherboard: Asus P4C800E Deluxe
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
RAM: 2Gb of Corsair Extreme PC3200
Power Supply: Enermax 460W
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hard Drive: Western Digital 250Gb SATA 7200rpm w/8mb cache (WD2500JD)
DVDRom: Lite-on 16x
DVR: Pioneer DVR-107
I would appreciate any suggestion,
Wade
configuration using the Promise controller built into my P4C800E
Deluxe MB. I am not sure what hard drives I should purchase for this
though. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Ideally I would like to add two 250+Gb hard drives and have them
appear in XP Pro as one large volume. After reading many of the
threads in this forum, I am confused. Should I purchase 2 SATA drives
or 1 SATA and 1 PATA. What will give me the best performance using
the built in Promise raid controller?
Right now I am leaning towards 2 Western Digital 250Gb SATA 7200 rpm
w/8mb cache (WD2500JD). Are these drives going to hold up in a RAID
environment? Is it worth the extra $ for the Caviar RAID Edition
Series (WD2500SD)? These drives are going to be installed on a
workstation (not a server) so they won't be under heavy use all the
time. Should I be looking at a different manufacturer?
Here is my system configuration (purchased the end of May) as it
stands now:
Motherboard: Asus P4C800E Deluxe
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
RAM: 2Gb of Corsair Extreme PC3200
Power Supply: Enermax 460W
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hard Drive: Western Digital 250Gb SATA 7200rpm w/8mb cache (WD2500JD)
DVDRom: Lite-on 16x
DVR: Pioneer DVR-107
I would appreciate any suggestion,
Wade