What is what?

ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
edited February 2004 in Hardware
Ok, Evil thoughts are creepin into my head.

Thinkin about a upgrade to my old athlon 550Mhz system. I gotta go bigger and better............ yea, bigger and faster even.

thinking about going to a Raid setup....yea, Raid!!!

is it worth it? Should I go SATA or IDE, I don't want lots of problems for only a little improvment.
Thoughts, comments, do's, don'ts. Mobo, processor, RAM and such are pending.

Comments

  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited January 2004
    Sata is slowly becomnig a great new standard, but it doesn't reinvent the harddrive. If you went with a HPT370 or 372 controller based raid0+1 motherboard, you'll see a large improvement over single drive operation. But sata isn't that much of a leap from current raid0 performance. You'll have to look at your wallet and decide if sata can wait a little longer or be a 'must-have'.
  • jnash007jnash007
    edited February 2004
    Seems that SATA prices are falling fast at least here by me and on tigerdirect.com. The price of some of the low end RAID 0 cards are cheap enough also.. I wish I had the personal experience with the SATA Raind to be more helpful but taking two MUCH faster drives and making a RAID 0 should make for a very happy machine in my opinion. 80gig SATA drives are around $75-85 and the card I believe was around $30. If ya go SATA Raid post some disk benchmarks for us please.
  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited February 2004
    I would cuncur with stoopid. IMHO sata is overrated. I can get the same speed and performance or better from my Highpoint RocketRaid ATA133 Pci card and hook up my IDE drives in Raid~0 than spending the money on sata drives. Btw, price of raid card: $40

    You want some speed? Get a set of Raptors. Be warned, they aren't cheap! :D
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