Will this work good in Raid 0???

[Dan Cantrell]

I have these two drives:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136161

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136010

Will these work good in a Raid 0???? I've never done a raid so I have no experience to rely on... And just as a side note here is a good deal on a drive today.. Thought about picking up one or two just to have handy for when a drive in the raid I'm considering fails...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236120&cm_sp=Homepage_HD-_-P2_22-236-120-_-03092015

 

[kanewolf]

With RAID 0 if either of those drives fails you will loose all your data. Having a spare is OK but you will be restoring a backup from scratch. I would NEVER recommend purchasing a refurbished mechanical hard disk. Save your pennies and buy a 500GB SSD. You will be much happier and have a lot fewer problems in the long run.

 

[ahnilated]

I second kanewolf's comments. Having a backup drive for a raid 0 is nice but you still have to restore from backup. Raid 0 is nice for the speeds you get but the risk of data failure is harsh. I had a 3 HDD raid 0 and lost all 3 of the drives one at a time. That was a lot of restoring because of bad HDD's at 3 different times. I have also done raid 0 with SSD's, the speeds are awesome for loading a game but aren't really much help unless you are loading massive files. For normally daily desktop use it really isn't worth the risk.

 

[Dan Cantrell]

So these drives will work good together??

 

[kanewolf]

They will function. They will be limited in total performance by the Blue (smaller cache). You had two "Storage Authorities" recommend against using RAID 0, but if you are set on it, go for it.

 

[Dan Cantrell]

They will function. They will be limited in total performance by the Blue (smaller cache). You had two "Storage Authorities" recommend against using RAID 0, but if you are set on it, go for it.[/quotem


Lol, I'm not gonna put the family photo library on it, just doing a little speed experiment.. What do you mean smaller cache? They both had 16mb I thought...

 

[Dan Cantrell]

I've had great luck with HHDs over the last several years or so. I currently have 4 desktops going (just built my son a gaming rig for Christmas, and the other three have been up and going from 5 to 8 years).. I have 2 HTPCs and two work computers, and they all have multiple HHDs in them. I can't remember the last time I had one to go out, but its probably because I take extremely good care of them. I don't let them take dives. I don't know how much experience anyone else has, but I've fooled with them long enough to know you can make a HHD last a LONG time if you keep the surges down and keep them on battery back up. What makes a HHD go out is what I just mentioned plus the illegal resets when messing around with over clocking and such.. You take a drive that's never had the disk take a dive and it can last a long time..

 

[ahnilated]

HDD's can fail within the first 6 months for just being bad drives. That was the issue I had with purchasing the same model of drives and 5 out of 8 of them failed within 6 months and were replaced by a different model. I couldn't tell you how many hundreds of PC's I have built and never had a HDD fail but I am glad it was on my own equipment and not on a customer/friend/work computer.

 

[kanewolf]

I've had great luck with HHDs over the last several years or so. I currently have 4 desktops going (just built my son a gaming rig for Christmas, and the other three have been up and going from 5 to 8 years).. I have 2 HTPCs and two work computers, and they all have multiple HHDs in them. I can't remember the last time I had one to go out, but its probably because I take extremely good care of them. I don't let them take dives. I don't know how much experience anyone else has, but I've fooled with them long enough to know you can make a HHD last a LONG time if you keep the surges down and keep them on battery back up. What makes a HHD go out is what I just mentioned plus the illegal resets when messing around with over clocking and such.. You take a drive that's never had the disk take a dive and it can last a long time..

Backblaze has published a lot of information about disk failure -- For example: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/
There is a significant probability increase over time. If you have disks that have 5 years accumulated run-time, you are living on borrowed time...

 

[Dan Cantrell]

I've had great luck with HHDs over the last several years or so. I currently have 4 desktops going (just built my son a gaming rig for Christmas, and the other three have been up and going from 5 to 8 years).. I have 2 HTPCs and two work computers, and they all have multiple HHDs in them. I can't remember the last time I had one to go out, but its probably because I take extremely good care of them. I don't let them take dives. I don't know how much experience anyone else has, but I've fooled with them long enough to know you can make a HHD last a LONG time if you keep the surges down and keep them on battery back up. What makes a HHD go out is what I just mentioned plus the illegal resets when messing around with over clocking and such.. You take a drive that's never had the disk take a dive and it can last a long time..

Backblaze has published a lot of information about disk failure -- For example: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/
There is a significant probability increase over time. If you have disks that have 5 years accumulated run-time, you are living on borrowed time...[/

No doubt we live in a world where entropy affects all things, living and non-living.. But we take care of things and slow the effects of entropy... I'm well aware of the vulnerability of Raid 0 but that's ok...