After hours of research seems no one else has tried what I'm about to try tonight...
Current Configuration:
Asus P5VDC-MX Mobo
Pentium D805 2.6GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM 533MHz
2 - WD 120GB SATA 150's in RAID 0
WindowsXP Pro
After Today:
Asus P5VDC-MX Mobo
Pentium D805 2.6GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM 533MHz
1 - Raptor 74GB 10K RPM SATA
2 - WD 120GB SATA 150's in RAID 0
WindowsXP Media Center loaded on my Raptor and then use the RAID 0 as my backup and temp files...yeah I know...Raid 0 as back up probably not a good idea, but I'm going to keep copies of all on Raptor also...
I've read a lot on this and some say the SATA Raid 0 is faster than 1 Raptor alone...Other's say a Raptor is much faster if you avg out all the read and write times it's a better way to go than Raid 0 config...I was tired of worrying about data loss with my RAID 0 config and wanted to keep the speed of raid so I got the Raptor. I'll post the results..right now with the CURRENT config, it takes 15 min to install Win XP Pro with SP1 and 2 and updates....this is really the only way for me to test the configurations without running benchmark software, that would take too long to load and get up and running...
Well there are a lot of people with opinions about this but I wasn't able to find someone that actually tried this. It get's expensive but I guess if we all post the little info we can come up with we can all make better choices about the hardware we buy.
Current Configuration:
Asus P5VDC-MX Mobo
Pentium D805 2.6GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM 533MHz
2 - WD 120GB SATA 150's in RAID 0
WindowsXP Pro
After Today:
Asus P5VDC-MX Mobo
Pentium D805 2.6GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM 533MHz
1 - Raptor 74GB 10K RPM SATA
2 - WD 120GB SATA 150's in RAID 0
WindowsXP Media Center loaded on my Raptor and then use the RAID 0 as my backup and temp files...yeah I know...Raid 0 as back up probably not a good idea, but I'm going to keep copies of all on Raptor also...
I've read a lot on this and some say the SATA Raid 0 is faster than 1 Raptor alone...Other's say a Raptor is much faster if you avg out all the read and write times it's a better way to go than Raid 0 config...I was tired of worrying about data loss with my RAID 0 config and wanted to keep the speed of raid so I got the Raptor. I'll post the results..right now with the CURRENT config, it takes 15 min to install Win XP Pro with SP1 and 2 and updates....this is really the only way for me to test the configurations without running benchmark software, that would take too long to load and get up and running...
Well there are a lot of people with opinions about this but I wasn't able to find someone that actually tried this. It get's expensive but I guess if we all post the little info we can come up with we can all make better choices about the hardware we buy.