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7th April, 2006, 03:59 PM
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| Fast RAID on the cheap! High performance RAID 0.....for less than £100! Ever wished you had enough money to have a pair of WD Raptors but didnt have £150 for 70GB of storage?......I can't help you there but what I can do is show you how fast a cheaper array of drives can be. *Please note that I am using synthetic benchmarks which do not equate exactly to real-life speeds, also the way benchmarks measure speed varies which is why i am presenting two groups of data* My array is using four 40GB Seagate Barracuda drives that were purchased as refurbished drives for around £80 for the lot, now I will first mention that it is impossible to get the same data seek times with standard 7200rpm drives as it is with the 10000rpm raptors, it is possible however to get seriously fast read/write times which when loading a map for BF2 or a similar game means you can be across the map capturing a base before most people are half loaded. Set up on the standard NF4 RAID (NVRAID) controller, I have all four drives in a striped array and it gives performance along these lines......(bear in mind that my array is around 3 times cheaper per GB than the WD raptor array and is only £30 more expensive than a single 120GB Seagate drive)
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7th April, 2006, 04:02 PM
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| Wow, that is pretty damn impressive!  Where did you manage to get the refurbished HDD?
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7th April, 2006, 04:08 PM
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| EBAY always good deals on hard disks now and again.
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7th April, 2006, 04:08 PM
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| Glad its worked out for you 
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7th April, 2006, 04:29 PM
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| Front Page! http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/ For me, this would be preferable to some noisy Raptors. It's plenty fast enough anyhow!
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7th April, 2006, 05:36 PM
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10 18 GB cheetas for $18 each, delivered, and $75 for the SCSI controller. I'm only running 8 of the drives (the other two are spares). |
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7th April, 2006, 06:05 PM
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| Here are my two seagate's in stripe:
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7th April, 2006, 06:21 PM
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| Why is there a big dip in your throughput in the middle? Is that always there?
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7th April, 2006, 09:07 PM
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| One disk is faulty it will be replaced !
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7th April, 2006, 10:38 PM
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| Off topic : ChrisBard - where did you get that wall paper? And, more importantly, may I have a copy? 
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7th April, 2006, 10:54 PM
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| no response from the big man himself
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8th April, 2006, 07:30 AM
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 Sure lad here you go, for you there are even two 
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12th April, 2006, 08:41 PM
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| Here are my two seagate's S-ATA2 80GB in stripe: 
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13th April, 2006, 11:12 AM
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