recommend some good hdd's for raid 0

[citercian{007}monk]

i've been looking at hard drives for my first computer but there are so many brands and speeds, etc. Can ya'll recommend some high quality/your favorite hdd's that I can put in raid 0 for my first build. Any brand names would be great. :cool:

[Cricket]

Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate.

Are you going to be doing IDE or SATA RAID?

:) Cricket

[Force Flow]

Definately get at least 7200rpm drives and drives with an 8MB cache.

Remember, both drives have to be the same model in order to get the most out of your RAID array.

[i8uiky]

I used a maxtor 6y12omo. It had good reviews and 3 years warenty go to newegg.com and you can find it for $109.
if you want a cheeper one look for information on review sites

[glc]

If you want top speed, there is only one drive - WD Raptor.

[citercian{007}monk]

glc i was looking at the WD raptor, but 74 gb didn't seem like alot of space for gaming. If i put two in a raid 0 array would it be enough space?

[glc]

Thats 140 gigs, your decision.

[piccolo0u812]

I tried a RAID 0 on my Asus A7N8X mobo with bios verison 1.3 using two 80 GB Maxtor drives. After about a week, it would lose data and corrupt the system. I had the two drives connected through the SATA ports using dongles. I had XP installed initially, but I had to reinstall on my other drive after it just quit booting. I've since removed the RAID and not had a lick of problem. Is it the RAID controller (Promise I think)? Is it the bios? Who knows? Unless you've done this before and found it works fine, I'd think about whether you really need it. I've found the best thing for gaming speed is to just rip an image of the game disk to your HD and load it through a cd emulator (no spin up time). But you probably already do that.

Just thought I'd share my experience.