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    RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    I have 2 1TB Samsung F3's HD103SJ SATA 2 and 2 500 GB Seagate ST3500413AS SATA 3. I will shortly be setting up a RAID 0/Striped configuration. I can't make up my mind whether to go with performance or storage capacity. The PC is a Dell XPS 8300 with an i7 2600 and 16 GB DDR3.

    I will be selling the pair I don't use but this has no bearing on the decision. So please help, which pair would you keep and why? TIA

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Sell them all and buy an SSD. Honestly RAID-0 is not worth the risk unless you're using it as a scratch drive where you don't care about your data.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by b0redom View Post
    Sell them all and buy an SSD. Honestly RAID-0 is not worth the risk unless you're using it as a scratch drive where you don't care about your data.
    I'm gonna be backing up to a network server and external hard drive so loss of data shouldn't really be a problem.

    I'm not really interested in SSD's but maybe that will change some time but not now.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by CALLMENUJAK View Post
    I can't make up my mind whether to go with performance or storage capacity.
    If you don't have very clear requirements then avoid RAID and just run a bunch of disks - you'll get better performance, storage and safety.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    If you don't have very clear requirements then avoid RAID and just run a bunch of disks - you'll get better performance, storage and safety.
    This.

    There's no point whatsoever. I'd sell the whole lot and buy a quick 2TB disk instead if that's the amount of storage you need.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    This.

    There's no point whatsoever. I'd sell the whole lot and buy a quick 2TB disk instead if that's the amount of storage you need.
    I have a 2 TB HD204UI in a Dell Precision 380 that I'm using as a server.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by CALLMENUJAK View Post
    I have a 2 TB HD204UI in a Dell Precision 380 that I'm using as a server.
    That's quite a slow drive, wouldn't use one of them if you want speed.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    That's quite a slow drive, wouldn't use one of them if you want speed.
    I use the Dell XPS 8300 for my every day computing. I'm not worried or bothered about the speed of the drive in the server.

    Now I'm thinking off just selling 1 of the F3's and putting the other 1 in the server with the F4. I see you have one of these in your self built.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by CALLMENUJAK View Post
    I use the Dell XPS 8300 for my every day computing. I'm not worried or bothered about the speed of the drive in the server.

    Now I'm thinking off just selling 1 of the F3's and putting the other 1 in the server with the F4. I see you have one of these in your self built.
    If you're talking about the F4, I've got loads of them in my servers as well

    Great drives imo

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    If you're talking about the F4, I've got loads of them in my servers as well

    Great drives imo
    Yeah, so it looks like the Seagates are going in my XPS 8300.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    If they're going to give you sufficient space then there's no good reason why not. You're not going to notice the difference, if there is any difference at all, between the Seagates and the Samsungs.

    I would be more tempted to put one 1TB drive in the server, one 1TB drive in the desktop and get rid of both Seagates rather than putting a pair of Seagates in the desktop, but if you're set on RAID it won't do any harm.

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    Re: RAID 0, What hard drives should I keep?

    I may just do that. When I first got this XPS 8300 I tried to put a F3 and F4 in but the F3 ended up as inaccessible boot device. I can't even remember how I was trying to do it but then I tried the other F3 and the same thing happened again. Both were inaccessible in another PC and then loud clicking noises and both were bricked.

    I've never had any trouble with installing hard drives but I was unsure if it was something I did wrong. This was around May 11 and I just got around to RMA them 2 weeks ago and now I have more drives than I need.

    I bought another Seagate because the XPS 8300 already had one in it. Running a long test on it now to make sure its ok before I sell it. The other Seagate has never been used.

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