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agreed. It still isn't bad to consider RAID 5, but in my application it's more money than I am looking for to do it right. I can do a RAID 0 properly for much less. True that the risk is there, but (knock on wood) I don't think that is extremely likely. Plus, I am already willing to accept if it happened that I wouldn't cry about it. Get everything I need backed up on another drive and the less important things (games, movies, etc.) can have the small risk of being lost.
On another note, I did notice that newegg has the 640GB caviar black drives on sale for 65 bucks. With that, I could buy say 3 of those for $194. That would give me better performance than 2 x 1TB with similar space. I am highly considering this option. Thoughts?
Are you sure that is better than a 640GB black? Those are the blue's, which are suppose be the cheaper, less performing drives. WD says the dual processors and 32mb cache sets the black series apart in performance, and stability.Just to give u more info The WD500AAKS HDD is considered to a more faster HDD then a regular 7200RPM HDD because it uses two 3x166 GB platters that makes it a bit more faster. A lot of people like them.
Check it out http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073&Tpk=wd5000aaks
Do some google searches if u want, here is one forum talking about this HDD
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1187845
I have 3 of them two are in raid 0 and I love them.
You begin to exceed a 15k SAS drive's performance as soon as you put two 7200.12 SG 'Cudas in RAID 0. RAID 0 scales out nearly to 2x the initial performance.