Setting up cheap RAID. Advice on drives

[doddie]

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

 

[Brownz \(Mobile\)]

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.

 

[John Doe]

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

You must be talking about redundancy instead of speed? Otherwise
"cheap" probably wouldn't be an option.

If you were talking about speed, Western Digital Raptor 150 GB
10,000 rpm drives would fit and are not too expensive IMO. I don't
know if they are SATAII but that probably would have to do with
speed.

Good luck.

 

[DCA]

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!

 

[DCA]

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!

 

[DCA]

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