Budget Raid Array Drive Minimum Price

[Ethan Feinhaus]

So, this can also function as a thread for people who wonder about the minimum price to spend on a hard drive for a RAID 0 array.

Anyways, I was defragmenting my hard drive while trying to watch youtube videos, and my entire computer came to a crawl. When I check the resource usage, I found that my hard drive resources were completely taken up.

For a while now, ever since I built it, my computer would become slow when I was loading more than a few things at once, even though I have an i7-3770, and usage only going above 20% during stability tests or KSP. Today, the pieces fell together, and I realized that the laptop hard drive I've been using to power my system has been bottlenecking everything.

And so, with that realization, I began looking into hard drives on eBay that I can use as a second drive for RAID 0, and quickly found a used 7.5 year old hard drive for 17 dollars. All I need is 320GB on it, and it looks like it was high end, because it has a MOLEX adapter on it along with SATA, which was only available for high-end SATA hard drives. Should I go for it? If not, what's the minimum I should spend?

 

[dvs_xerxes]

A raid 0 array with old and used hard drives? thats a waste of time, and you get double chance of hard drive failure with it (more so with old used ebay hdd). Plus you need 2 hard drives at minimum of the same size.

The fact because that 320gb hard drive you found on ebay has a molex adapter on it with sata doesnt mean its a high end drive either. It just means its just an old hdd. Also why are you using a 2.5(notebook) hdd for a desktop? Most 2.5 hdd are inherently slower that its 3.5 counterpart.

If your really set on a raid 0, id get 2, 1tb drive. if your on the cheap get the seagate drive. wd is ok too, but I wouldn't use the wd green drives(they can be very slow).

Lastly you prob should consider ssd drive or ssd caching. its a better alternative to raid 0 if looking for a increase in speed.

 

[Ethan Feinhaus]

A raid 0 array with old and used hard drives? thats a waste of time, and you get double chance of hard drive failure with it (more so with old used ebay hdd). Plus you need 2 hard drives at minimum of the same size.

The hard drives that I have last for more than 15 years, and the laptop hard drive I have is 320GB on its own, and the hard drive I found has that much. If anything, the fact that it still works shows that it will last a while

The fact because that 320gb hard drive you found on ebay has a molex adapter on it with sata doesnt mean its a high end drive either. It just means its just an old hdd.

Actually, those hybrid SATA/MOLEX powered hard drives are so rare that even my computer repair teacher didn't know about them until I told him about them after a test, not to mention the only builds I've ever seen them in were high end when they were first built.

Lastly you prob should consider ssd drive or ssd caching. its a better alternative to raid 0 if your setting up raid 0 for increased speed.

Can I do SSD caching with a flashdrive? I don't like SSD's, and the entire point of this is cheapness.

EDIT: Also, you never answered, what should be the minimum spending price be on a cheap, working, hard drive?

EDIT: Alright, thank you for this, I have done research, and found that I can put in another 2 GB of RAM and set up a RAM drive to run readyboost and increase performance.

 

[dvs_xerxes]

1tb hard drives cost a 50-60$ and you need 2 of them. so around 120$ and no you cant do ssd caching on a flash drive.

Also ready boost is totally different from sdd caching and i dont recomend it on newer computers

 

[dvs_xerxes]

No no no! don't use readyboost on a ram drive thats a waste of ram.