SATA with RAID 0

[mAxx77]

I want to buy 2 new HD with 80GB or a little less, i dont need more, and put it on RAID 0
I just dont know which one to buy.
Can u help me?
Thx

 

[mAxx77]

No one???
Isnt there anyone that could give me an advice??

 

[lunitic]

considering you want to use RAID 0 I assume you'll want the fastest drive available. Western digital raptors are very popular in this forum, but not yet available in a 80GB version. WD expects it to be shipping in november. I expect it to be expensive.

WD also has the Caviar series (WD800JB), which is not quite so fast but still very good.

Maxtor has the 6Y080M0 which is comparable to the WD Caviar.

I have a 40GB caviar, a somewhat older drive, of which I find the head movements noisy. I have the 80GB Maxtor (PATA) and I'm very happy with it.

 

[mAxx77]

PATA is Parallel ATA?
What is the diff to SATA?
thx m8

 

[lunitic]

yep. Parallel ATA. The difference is the cable: PATA uses 80-conductor cable, SATA only 4. PATA supports 2 drives per cable (master and slave), SATA only 1. PATA cables are clumsy and can obstruct the airflow in your computer. PATA cables are max. 17 inches long, SATA much longer (I'm no sure how much, I think about 1.5 meter). SATA drives are hot-swappable (I think, but I have no experience with this). Bandwith of SATA is higher than PATA, which also has to share the bandwith with 2 devices, but PATA bandwith is sufficient to accomodate 2 of the fastest drives currently available.

 

[vcv1122]

Look at Seagate. I think they have an sata 80gb.