maxtor sata 150 raid 0 or western digital raptor

[s0z3]

i was wondering if i should get the maxtor maxline 3 w/16mb cache sata 150 in raid 0 or the western digital single raptor 8mb cache. which one preform better and faster, the raid 0 or single raptor?

[macko72]

I would say WD Raptor but what will you use depends entirely on you !!!

[rspassey]

Keep in mind that RAID 0 has no fault tolerance - one drive fails and you lose everything.

[jayb1234]

I would go with the maxtor. The performance is not that much less than the raptor to justify the raptors cost. Also you dont have to run the maxtor as a RAID drive. RAID uses two drives to make a copy of everything on the drives, and effectively cuts your useble hard drive space in half.

[glc]

jay, you are referring to RAID 1, not RAID 0.

[Digitalic]

Keep in mind that RAID 0 has no fault tolerance - one drive fails and you lose everything.

Excellent point. Which is why *backing up your data* makes "living on the edge" with RAID 0 fun..:)

[rspassey]

Jay - incase you were unsure.
RAID 0 = stripping (the data is spread between the two drives) w/ 2 drives
RAID 1 = mirroring (one drive is a mirror of copy of the other) w/ 2 drives
RAID 0+1 = striping/mirroring (benfits of both above) w/ 4 drives
RAID 5 = stripping over 3 more drives
RAID 10 = stripped config w/ RAID 1 (same fualt tolerance as RAID 1 and higher data transfer speeds) minimum of 4 drives

[jayb1234]

My bad. Thanks for catching that guys.

[TwoRails]

s0z3, I'd go with the Maxtors, and not the RAID. Maxtor DiaMax 10 and Maxline III series are very fast 7200RPM drives that give the famous Raptor a run for the proverbial money, and they actually beat the Raptor in some benchmarks.