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My new(ish) PC is lovely but the loud hard rive is annoying me. I'm looking to get a new quiet one and have found a super quiet 320 gig Western Digital for very few pennies. For that price, I could buy two and RAID them together. But, the question is - how? I'm looking for performance rather than security so do I want RAID 0? Is it worth doing, or should I just shove them both in seperately as two drives?
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Another plan is to get a smallish raptor for installing Windows, games etc and keep a nice quiet storage one on the side for music, films etc.
At the mo I've got a 250 gig Seagate (loud) and an old 120 gig. I could either get a 2 x 320 gig Western Digitals that run nice and quiet and RAID them or get a quick Raptor and maybe get one quiet one for the same sorta price.
At the mo I've got a 250 gig Seagate (loud) and an old 120 gig. I could either get a 2 x 320 gig Western Digitals that run nice and quiet and RAID them or get a quick Raptor and maybe get one quiet one for the same sorta price.
I ran raid 0 for a few years with some 5600rpm drives, they were very quiet and a fair bit quicker that a single drive but when one of them went, i lost the lot, at least if a normal drive goes you have various tools and a chance to get the data off it.
I've never bothered since even though all my pc's have on board raid.
I've never bothered since even though all my pc's have on board raid.
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Wouldn't get a raptor for quiet tbh cos they are so blatantly NOT 
I'm running 2 of the old 8mb cache 36Gb variants in Raid 0 atm and their rather loud. The newer ones are abit quieter but still not quiet.
I'd suggest a good read of this site m8e : <a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com/" target="_blank">http://www.silentpcreview.com/</a>
They make good recommendations for silent gear and how loud stuff sounds.
For performance of storage I'd suggest a read of: <a href="http://www.storagereview.com/" target="_blank">http://www.storagereview.com/</a>
Should give you the best info about hard drive storage.
I'm running 2 of the old 8mb cache 36Gb variants in Raid 0 atm and their rather loud. The newer ones are abit quieter but still not quiet.I'd suggest a good read of this site m8e : <a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com/" target="_blank">http://www.silentpcreview.com/</a>
They make good recommendations for silent gear and how loud stuff sounds.
For performance of storage I'd suggest a read of: <a href="http://www.storagereview.com/" target="_blank">http://www.storagereview.com/</a>
Should give you the best info about hard drive storage.