Wich is better for RAID0

pt · Aug 7, 2006

Hi
I still hasn' buy my new HDD (lack of money) and i am now thinking off getting a Raid0 setup with 2 160GB HDD, the only thing left to choose is the brand should i get Western Digital or Hitachi, the Hitachi are a bit cheaper, wich HDD have better performance in Raid0 both have a 8MB CACHE, same RPM (7200), both SATA2, wich one will you choose?

Canuto · Aug 7, 2006

Hitachi are always better.

Azn Tr14dZ · Aug 7, 2006

Are you on crack? Western Digital is one of the most trusted companies in hard drives. I have two 80GB Western Digital Caviar SATAII HDDs in RAID 0, and man is it great. There's a reason why the Hitachi's are cheaper. Go with Western Digital.

randomperson21 · Aug 7, 2006

wd all the way baby!

in my experience, hitachis are usually loud, unreliable, and fail.

pt · Aug 7, 2006

Azn Tr14dZ said:
Are you on crack? Western Digital is one of the most trusted companies in hard drives. I have two 80GB Western Digital Caviar SATAII HDDs in RAID 0, and man is it great. There's a reason why the Hitachi's are cheaper. Go with Western Digital.

they're are cheaper only 'cause i have some big discounts on the shop that sells the Hitachi, they are almost the same price without discount i have heard that Hitachi HDD works very good on RAID0

mikelopez · Aug 7, 2006

What do you guys think about the Seagate Barracudas and their perpendicular recording? I have one of these in my new system:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148144

When I can afford it I will get another for my own Raid 0 setup.

pt · Aug 7, 2006

mikelopez said:
What do you guys think about the Seagate Barracudas and their perpendicular recording? I have one of these in my new system:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148144

When I can afford it I will get another for my own Raid 0 setup.

They are not for sale in Portugal and i need a new HDD, 'cause i'm sick tired of only have 40GB :mad:

randomperson21 · Aug 7, 2006

seagates are really nice. specially the perpendicular recording ones.

Alec§taar · Aug 7, 2006

mikelopez said:
What do you guys think about the Seagate Barracudas and their perpendicular recording?

They rock - one of them beat my SATA I RAID 0 array composed of:

2 Western Digital "Raptor X's" 10,000rpm 16mb buffers 8.8ms access/seek
Promise EX8350 RAID 128mb ECC RAM Caching Controller w/ Intel I-O cpu (PCI-e x4 bus)

On READS portions of the HDTach test...

However - I did get the better of it in:

Seek/access (by like 5ms, big margin, because it is 7,200rpm vs. 10,000rpm on mine)

&

CPU use (my RAID 0 setup showed 0% here due to caching controller having it's own onboard CPU for disk oriented I/O, which offloads the system CPU for that type of work - the Seagate owned by INSTG8R showed 4% iirc)

However, it STILL knocked the heck out of the rest of the competition too, 2x now, on HDTach tests here & remember - it was only 1 single disk, not a RAID 0 array!

(... albeit, it IS SATA II, & has greater data density due to the perp. recording tech it uses)

APK

G.T · Aug 7, 2006

randomperson21 said:
wd all the way baby!

in my experience, hitachis are usually loud, unreliable, and fail.

Preach on, Hitachis suck sweaty donky nuts.

WD are fantastic and I've had zero issues with them.

They work like a charm in RAID 0, I have 2 pairs in RAID 0 are they are awesome. Obviously the Raptors are teh awesomenesterest. >:E

pt · Aug 7, 2006

Do you think i should wait for the Seagate with perpendicular recording?, for0 how much time are they being soldl in USA

randomperson21 · Aug 7, 2006

pt said:
Do you think i should wait for the Seagate with perpendicular recording?, for0 how much time are they being soldl in USA

you can already pick them up on newegg in the US for not much more than a standard seagate barracuda. i think the perpendicular recording model only costs about $10 more than the regular one.

Can you import?

pt · Aug 7, 2006

randomperson21 said:
you can already pick them up on newegg in the US for not much more than a standard seagate barracuda. i think the perpendicular recording model only costs about $10 more than the regular one.

Can you import?

i can, but there is already a IDE with perpendicular recording in one shop, i'm going to wait for a SATA2 disk

mikeownage · Aug 7, 2006

seagate is the best. but since you cant get it go with hitichi.

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