richcornucopia Posted December 29, 2005 CID Share Posted December 29, 2005 I'm looking to upgrade my storage because my 160gig ata133 is getting full. I've been wanting to run a raid 0 for awhile now and my motherboard supports sata raid. Something that has caught my eye is sata II, or sata 3gbs. If I were to purchase 2 sata II drives could I run them on my sata 1 raid motherboard. I'm thinking that it would be backward compatable and would run at sata 150 speed, is this correct. I would like to do this so in the future if I upgrade to a board which supports sata II then I won't have to upgrade hardrives to get faster speeds. This is the hardrive I'm thinking of running in the raid 0, does anyone have any experience with this drive, sata II, or know of a good drive to accomplish this task? Oh yea, I want it to be pretty quiet too. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144417 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 29, 2005 CID Share Posted December 29, 2005 I have 2 Western Digital Sata Drives running in RAID 0... @ PC Pitstop I read around 110 or so on disk speed(but has read faster)...compared to around 40 with ata 133 drive. RAID 1 will not give you any speed increases over a single Sata Drive.(just will give you constant back up drive if one was to fail) I've been using raid for a while, PM me, and I can help you out.. Check this out too... http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=10525.0 The drive you show above is pretty much the same drive as mine are..just 50gig larger... They work great...I noticed that my via raid controller is alot faster than my promise controller...Which controller do you have on your board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 29, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 29, 2005 Are your western digitals sata 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 29, 2005 CID Share Posted December 29, 2005 Unfortunately not, I'm getting a new mobo soon, and I'm looking into those hd's you posted...And use my current drives for storage.. I think your logic is correct...But I would get confirmation on that..I assume the disk speed is "up to", and is limited by what the motherboard can handle. Good thinking ahead though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 30, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 Yea those have one of the best price per gigabyte on newegg so buying a couple to use in a sata raid will be a good deal. I was thinking of getting a motherboard that supports sata II but because Im tied down to a socket 478 I cant find any that support it. Oh well I might have to upgrade my processor and motherboard too, but I was thinking of that anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted December 30, 2005 CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 I would have to recommend running 2 hitachi 80MB sata II hard drives in raid 0 - they run insanely fast and costs only 100 dollars for both of them - i have data to prove it also ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 30, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 Yea Ive heard good things about the hitachi but the western digitals are 99 for 250gb so they are a much better value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 30, 2005 CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 I love my western digital drives...I've owned a bunch of them, and not one has failed... Now maxtor drives are another story...have had a few of them require a large magnet... My seagate drive was a durable beast too...I even broke a pin off @ the hard drive where the ide cable goes in..Thankfully I managed to yank a pin off(from where master/slave/cable select/limit drive jumper is), and soldered it in(after a loooong time trying to get pin through the hole, and then seated on the board properly)..Worked even after pc shop told me it was not repairable... Raid 0 is the way to go, just have to make sure you do constant backups...If one goes.. Bye Bye Data on both...(or you can do raid 0+1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 30, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 Ive also seen raid 5 but never have quite understood that. Lets say I were to buy 4 of those wd's and put them in a raid 5, what would that give me vs raid 0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 30, 2005 CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 I think Raid 4 uses one drive sort of as its main, and stripes data across them, but raid 5 stripes equally amongst all of them. Same as Raid 0 but more drives... Raid 5 should give you faster speeds than 0 if you have 4 drives as opposed to 2..Like more cylinders in a car.. I could explain it better, but i've been drinking some left over christmas wine.. Been edited cause I definitely had too much wine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 30, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 , well thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 30, 2005 CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 , well thanks for the help. If you can call it that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 30, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 Well the main thing was I just wanted to know that those western digitals would be a good choice and hearing that you've never had one fail on you give me more reason to pull the trigger on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 30, 2005 CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 They're solid drives...I've never used the hitachi drives, but I can say for a fact the maxtor drives are cheap(and they show it in time)... You will be very happy with the speed increase with the sata raid 0 or 5... Especially when you install windows for the first time..Zooom! I just use my old ata 133 drives as storage..I leave one plugged in, and the other 2 just sit in the case unplugged and store data I rarely need, but don't want to lose... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 30, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2005 Yea I think I'll put my ata's to work in my file server for backing stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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