what hard drive format would you choose for $300? [Archive]

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Skinny -32

10-29-2004, 03:04 AM

Dear pc geniuses. I currently have 2 hard drives with a raid controller. 1 hd is 10 gb, the other is 60 (7200 rpm IDE. I would like to have a very fast setup for around $300. What would you do?

Yuanji

10-29-2004, 07:59 AM

iif you have 300 dollars to spend on it, i would buy a 36 gig raptor they go for around 90 dollars and i would also buy a 200GB drive for storage..
edit-how did you RAID 2 different model hard drives together?

spyder003

10-29-2004, 12:45 PM

WD 36.7GB 10k Raptor (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-200&depa=1)

Maxtor 300GB 16MB cache (http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=22-144-359&DEPA=1\)

I wouldn't use RAID at all. I would use the Raptor for my OS, and the Maxtor for all my games and everything else.