New Super Fast HDD...

[nishantv2003]

Guys currently i own a seagate 250gb sata2 hdd(7200.10 with 8mb buffer).
now im thinking to upgrade my hdd,
so guys what should i do??
should i go for 320gb with 16mb buffer and sell my 250gb, or
should i buy another 80gb 10k rpm cheetah or any thing like it, and keep my current hdd, and make the new faster one as primery hdd???

so what do u say guys???
and pls let me know the price of both the hdd's...
thanx.

[vivekbabbudelhi]

you can consider ST3250310AS its a 250GB single platter 7200.10. Its half the thickness of a normal hard drive and blazing fast...like raptors

[nishantv2003]

hey vivek i have this hdd only ST3250310AS, although i was looking for ST3250410AS coz it had 16mb buffer.
so guys what do u say???

[desiibond]

You can try Western Digital Caviar SE 16 WD7500AAKS (750GB).

750GB
16MB cache
7200rpm
95MB/s datarate. (on par with 10k rpm drives)
Perpendicular recording
$150

India review: http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/Western_Digital_Caviar_7500AAKS/551-83140-632-1.html

[vivekbabbudelhi]

IMO consider ST3250310AS x 2 in RAID 0 and sure u would feel the thrill....best bang for bucks

[nishantv2003]

but vivek ST3250310AS hass 8mb buffer(i have this hdd),
and how will adding anotherone in Raid 0 increase performance???

[vivekbabbudelhi]

^^nishant i think that u need to search google a little about raid 0,raid 1 & raid 5 :):)

[praka123]

afaik Raid needs identical disks.

[desiibond]

^^nishant i think that u need to search google a little about raid 0,raid 1 & raid 5 :):)
yes adding two [IDENTICAL] discs in raid 0 will nearly double the performance.

RAID 0 means the data is divided into two parts and is written to two HDD's at the same time.

RAID 0 implements a striped disk array, the data is broken down into blocks and each block is written to a separate disk drive
I/O performance is greatly improved by spreading the I/O load across many channels and drives

you can get lot more info @ raid.edu "http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html"

But remember, to use RAID, both the harddrives should be same. Should have same specs.

Note: This will not increase the performance of games. It only increases copy/paste or any operations that depend a lot on HDD performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/17/parallel_processing/

[nishantv2003]

ok thanx guys....
only one more question,
as im having ST3250310AS 8mb buffer,
should i go for the same one i.e.ST3250310AS or can i go for ST3250410AS which is 250mb and has 16mb buffer???

thanx again guys:)

[Pathik]

I think that should work in raid 0.
But not sure.

[desiibond]

ok thanx guys....
only one more question,
as im having ST3250310AS 8mb buffer,
should i go for the same one i.e.ST3250310AS or can i go for ST3250410AS which is 250mb and has 16mb buffer???

thanx again guys:)

I would say "Go for the same one". You will not see breathtaking improvement with 8meg of extra cache. But it's worthy to use RAID 0.