IDE to SATA

striping raid provides highest performance,mirroring adds security

I personally would stripe them if speed is all important if not I would not bother raiding them at all but leave them as 2 drives and keep an up to date ghost image on second and back up data there also

pcpro magazine like the diamond max 10's they score as good all rounders

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by .jackson

How about 2 of these, anyone know if these drives are fast? Its stated that it uses 'fluid dynamic bearing motors for quiet operation', which is what my seagate baraccuda has got so I have no doubt this drive is quiet.

I quite like the idea of ordering 2 of these drives and setting them RAID 0, however reading my mobo manual, I can set it in 1+0, is that better? Also will I only get 160GB space in RAID rather than 160X2?

I have one of those disks - so far so good (1 week!) - certainly nice and quiet.

A quick note about RAID modes -

Raid 0 - aka striping - great performance, no resilience - capacity = 2 x smallest disk.
Raid 1 - aka mirroring - data resilience - good read performance, similar write performance - capacity = size of single disk.
Raid 0+1 - mirrored stripes - resilience and speed - needs FOUR drives!! - capacity = 2 x single drive

HTH

[.jackson]

Thanks I think I will be choosing the DiamondMax 10!

Carrying on with my questions; this one slighly off the topic but I will relate it to HDD.

My PSU is a ColorsIT 400WATT ATX 1.0, currently my system is stable, however I am curious, you see, my motherboard has 3 power connections;

4 pin 12V
24 pin ATX
4 pin molex connector (this is for PCI-E graphics cards making it more stable, especially using SLi)

Now all I have connected at the moment is the 4 pin 12V connection, and a 20pin ATX connector. The attachment is asus probe, and it shows that all my voltages are under, not by much I admit.

I dont want to risk any hardware damage because of low voltages, do you guys recommend getting a new PSU ATX2.0 as well? There are no spare molex connections if I do get 2 HDD...........

the 24 pin is a new type of connection,your getting the same results using the sep 4 pin,if the pc is stable then I don't think you should worry a lot of cheaper power supplies last for ages and work fine,but you get what you pay for and more expensive higher power psu's do offer more stable voltages

you can buy molex splitters for pence http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acatalog/pccables.html

I use a couple of these with a reasonable 500w psu (not an expensive one) and my machine runs 8 hdd's and 3 optical with a x800 xt pe fine and dandy

[.jackson]

I just looked at the MOLEX>SATA converter power cables that come with my mobo and they split from 1 molex into 2 sata, so I am ok.