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Hey guys. Got a few HD questions here. Now when it comes to brands, I've always been a Seagate drive kinda guy. Now I found a deal on a Western Digital drive and am curious, how's this brand? I know it's one of the big dogs in the market but if the quality noticable different between WD and Seagate? Other question regards raid. Can I set up a raid configuration w/ IDE drives? Is it worth it? Can I gain performance out of it? Which raid configuration would you recommend? Thanks for the help guys. Ciao!
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Posted 21 November 2004 - 09:40 AM
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Posted 21 November 2004 - 09:46 AM
I believe you have to make sure that you motherboard could handle doing raid for IDE ports, could be wrong. I know abit has a driver that you can download for there mobo's and it will let you install raid on IDE ports. Gain from raid on IDE....well unless you want backup for if one drive goes down then yes there is a gain, but I doubt there will be a speed gain, that all depends on the speed of the HD.
EDIT: here is tomshardware talking about a raid IDE controller http://www4.tomshard...orage/20021112/
EDIT: here is tomshardware talking about a raid IDE controller http://www4.tomshard...orage/20021112/
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Posted 21 November 2004 - 10:29 AM
and if your going for speed set up raid 0. unless your looking for some kind of data redundancy and error correction go with raid 0.
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LatinoHeat
Posted 21 November 2004 - 10:41 AM
i guess technically, to get the most out of raid 0 setup i'd like to reinstall my OS onto it right?
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Posted 22 November 2004 - 10:46 AM
well my one friend swears by seagate and he used to be a maxtor guy. i havent had one so i cant comment on seagate. id personally go with maxtor or wd but thats just me.
Let the strength of your words be the spark that ignites the flame.
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LatinoHeat
Posted 22 November 2004 - 12:41 PM
yea i've been a hardcore Seagate guy. but its just like asking if ATI or nVidia is better, ya kno? They are all good companies (Maxtor, Seagate, and WD) just making sure not a lot of people on here have have WD HDs crash often thats all =)
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Posted 22 November 2004 - 01:19 PM
Mwarhead said:
The drives I have had crash the most (other then IBM drives which I never purchase) are Maxtor. Had to RMA one particular drive 3 times.
heh i got a 40 gig ibm deathstar handed down to me...
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LatinoHeat
Posted 21 November 2004 - 09:40 AM
Hey guys. Got a few HD questions here. Now when it comes to brands, I've always been a Seagate drive kinda guy. Now I found a deal on a Western Digital drive and am curious, how's this brand? I know it's one of the big dogs in the market but if the quality noticable different between WD and Seagate? Other question regards raid. Can I set up a raid configuration w/ IDE drives? Is it worth it? Can I gain performance out of it? Which raid configuration would you recommend? Thanks for the help guys. Ciao!
life is not a movie
everyone lies
good guys lose
and love........does not conquer all
everyone lies
good guys lose
and love........does not conquer all
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Posted 21 November 2004 - 09:46 AM
I believe you have to make sure that you motherboard could handle doing raid for IDE ports, could be wrong. I know abit has a driver that you can download for there mobo's and it will let you install raid on IDE ports. Gain from raid on IDE....well unless you want backup for if one drive goes down then yes there is a gain, but I doubt there will be a speed gain, that all depends on the speed of the HD.
EDIT: here is tomshardware talking about a raid IDE controller http://www4.tomshard...orage/20021112/
EDIT: here is tomshardware talking about a raid IDE controller http://www4.tomshard...orage/20021112/
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Posted 21 November 2004 - 10:29 AM
and if your going for speed set up raid 0. unless your looking for some kind of data redundancy and error correction go with raid 0.
Let the strength of your words be the spark that ignites the flame.
*paging Dr Brian to the beer pong table*
*paging Dr Brian to the beer pong table*
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LatinoHeat
Posted 21 November 2004 - 10:41 AM
i guess technically, to get the most out of raid 0 setup i'd like to reinstall my OS onto it right?
life is not a movie
everyone lies
good guys lose
and love........does not conquer all
everyone lies
good guys lose
and love........does not conquer all
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Posted 22 November 2004 - 10:46 AM
well my one friend swears by seagate and he used to be a maxtor guy. i havent had one so i cant comment on seagate. id personally go with maxtor or wd but thats just me.
Let the strength of your words be the spark that ignites the flame.
*paging Dr Brian to the beer pong table*
*paging Dr Brian to the beer pong table*
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LatinoHeat
Posted 22 November 2004 - 12:41 PM
yea i've been a hardcore Seagate guy. but its just like asking if ATI or nVidia is better, ya kno? They are all good companies (Maxtor, Seagate, and WD) just making sure not a lot of people on here have have WD HDs crash often thats all =)
life is not a movie
everyone lies
good guys lose
and love........does not conquer all
everyone lies
good guys lose
and love........does not conquer all
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Posted 22 November 2004 - 01:19 PM
Mwarhead said:
The drives I have had crash the most (other then IBM drives which I never purchase) are Maxtor. Had to RMA one particular drive 3 times.
heh i got a 40 gig ibm deathstar handed down to me...
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