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assasin
assasin Original post #1
Nov 7, 2006 at 4:13 PM
I've a 80GB Seagate baracuda SATA II.Will it be better if i buy another 80GB HDD or get my present HDD xchanged 4 a 160GB.My mobo supports Raid 1,raid 0,raid 0+1,raid 5 and JBOD.Does installing 2 HDDs improve performance?Plz reply within half an hour as i've buy d HDD.
coolendra
coolendra #2
Nov 7, 2006 at 4:35 PM
If u hav a powerful SMPS then its ok... else i wont suggest u to clip two HDD into ur mobo.......
jz2linkinpark
jz2linkinpark #3
Nov 7, 2006 at 4:35 PM
change your present one with a 160 gig, less heat,less power, u can partition it to look like two hard-drives etc.
the dark-side is that: if the drives gets damaged, all your datas lost whereas with two drives you can at-least save some of it, and if anything ever happens, you'll still have one drive left:razz:
assasin
assasin #4
Nov 7, 2006 at 4:44 PM
The SMPS is powerful enough.Does creating a RAID gives any performance boost in real life.If yes den which one sud i set up.
samrulez
samrulez #5
Nov 7, 2006 at 5:52 PM
Raid 0 will definitely boost the performance....Get another 80Gig HDD and get up a Raid 0....
nishant_nms
nishant_nms #6
Nov 7, 2006 at 11:58 PM
samrulez said:
Raid 0 will definitely boost the performance....Get another 80Gig HDD and get up a Raid 0....
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RAID 0 will definetly be the best choice
aquamatrix
aquamatrix #7
Nov 8, 2006 at 1:30 AM
definitely raid 0
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Ch@0s #8
Nov 8, 2006 at 1:45 AM
^^As long as you have another drive to backup important stuff. Else I'd go nowhere close to RAID-0.
assasin
assasin #10
Nov 8, 2006 at 8:58 AM
@aquamatrix dats cuz raid 0 is the most unrelaible raid setup u can ever do.Its prone to failures.But guys i've heard dat raid 0 only boosts performance by bout 2-5% in real life.So will it be really worth it to set up a raid 0.
sysfilez
sysfilez #11
Nov 8, 2006 at 10:40 AM
RAID 0 will charge up ur performance.