might be upgrading soon, wondering if i can raid0 a new 320GB HDD with my 500 ive got now

nope, you need hard drives with identical storage space i believe.

SylerFTW wrote:

nope, you need hard drives with identical storage space i believe.

lol cold this is the second time you've replied to my post within 30sec. are u just waiting on the site for pony to post? lol

no ive been randomly going through a bunch of forums and just replying to any new posts that i find relevant.

so dw pony im not stalking you

SylerFTW wrote:

no ive been randomly going through a bunch of forums and just replying to any new posts that i find relevant.

so dw pony im not stalking you

aww shit i shoulda checked BEFORE i mounted the minigun on the roof now the cops are gunna have a cry........

SylerFTW wrote:

nope, you need hard drives with identical storage space i believe.

if youw want to gett best performance and reliability you need to get two identical hard drives in every respect. Best way to go is (of you can afford to) avoid raid and get a WD Velociaptor thoes are faster than anythig else around, otherwise just get 2 identical hard drives in RAID0

wtf is velo... whatever you just said
cos i want fast hardrives!!

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

SylerFTW wrote:

nope, you need hard drives with identical storage space i believe.

if youw want to gett best performance and reliability you need to get two identical hard drives in every respect. Best way to go is (of you can afford to) avoid raid and get a WD Velociaptor thoes are faster than anythig else around, otherwise just get 2 identical hard drives in RAID0

Actually, SSD is much faster, let alone SSD in RAID But you do get more MB/$ with the VR's.

but although ssd is faster id say stick with the normal hdd. oldstyle all the way

I assume you still think the world is flat, right?

There's a reason why SSD is being pushed so hard now... mechanical hard drives are shit. They're noisy, hot, heavy, take up lots of room (in quantity), easy to fail and worst of all, they're SLOW.

lol im oldskool, and the world looks flat but i know its round.

whats the life span of an SSD?
i heard somewhere HDD have like 10-15 years or something, id imagine SSD would be much more improved.
and wouldnt running shit in RAID reduce the lifespan by alot? best you just go with SSD if its speed you want more than capacity

but yeah, SSD ftw, my next computer upgrade will have an SSD at LEAST for the drive the OS and most programs n games are installed on.
it wont be long before SSD become dirt cheap

The reasone why SSDs havent taken off is because they have a short lifespan due to memory effects so you can only write a certain bit a few times before it stops working completely

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

SylerFTW wrote:

nope, you need hard drives with identical storage space i believe.

if youw want to gett best performance and reliability you need to get two identical hard drives in every respect.

ok probably a retarded question but..........

I have a 250GB and a 500GB rite now. what is get another 500GB in raid0 with my 500GB ive got now will that work? hpw do i find out if their exact same as i brought my pc didnt make it . NVM about the 250GB we live like 100M from traintracks

DaPony wrote:

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

SylerFTW wrote:

nope, you need hard drives with identical storage space i believe.

if youw want to gett best performance and reliability you need to get two identical hard drives in every respect.

ok probably a retarded question but..........

I have a 250GB and a 500GB rite now. what is get another 500GB in raid0 with my 500GB ive got now will that work? hpw do i find out if their exact same as i brought my pc didnt make it . NVM about the 250GB we live like 100M from traintracks

open the case and look at the label. i dont recommend using an older hard drive with a newer one because manufactures release different versions of the same hard drive and also teh older one will probably die sooner

lol no no no..

so you got 1 500gbHDD right.
go buy another 500GBHDD << best if its the exact same model and shit but doesn't have to be.
dont throw the 250gb out.... =='

use that for other shit like if you got backups you wanna store sumwhere or u can have it to store ur porn

EDIT: didnt see clerks post just then

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

The reasone why SSDs havent taken off is because they have a short lifespan due to memory effects so you can only write a certain bit a few times before it stops working completely

holy shit really? where ye read this? if its wiki dont blame me for being lazy!
i thought they were just big USB sticks

SylerFTW wrote:

lol no no no..

so you got 1 500gbHDD right.
go buy another 500GBHDD << best if its the exact same model and shit but doesn't have to be.
dont throw the 250gb out.... =='

use that for other shit like if you got backups you wanna store sumwhere or u can have it to store ur porn

EDIT: didnt see clerks post just then

1. what porn? if i needed extra space i'd get one of em 2TB HDD xD

2. Meh aslong as it works.

3. fuck clerks post going page one will steal ma precious dloads

your dog wrote:

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

The reasone why SSDs havent taken off is because they have a short lifespan due to memory effects so you can only write a certain bit a few times before it stops working completely

holy shit really? where ye read this? if its wiki dont blame me for being lazy!
i thought they were just big USB sticks

It's really unneccessary to worry about.

Who seriously uses a hard drive that is "10-15 years" old??

There's <9000 hours in one year. OCZ Vertex drives have an MTBF time of 1.5 MILLION hours.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=4

Quote :

SSD lifespans are usually quantified in the number of erase/program cycles a block can go through before it is unusable, as I mentioned earlier it's generally 10,000 cycles for MLC flash and 100,000 cycles for SLC. Neither of these numbers are particularly user friendly since only the SSD itself is aware of how many blocks it has programmed. Intel wanted to represent its SSD lifespan as a function of the amount of data written per day, so Intel met with a number of OEMs and collectively they came up with a target figure: 20GB per day. OEMs wanted assurances that a user could write 20GB of data per day to these drives and still have them last, guaranteed, for five years. Intel had no problems with that.

Intel went one step further and delivered 5x what the OEMs requested. Thus Intel will guarantee that you can write 100GB of data to one of its MLC SSDs every day, for the next five years, and your data will remain intact. The drives only ship with a 3 year warranty but I suspect that there'd be some recourse if you could prove that Intel's 100GB/day promise was false.

ah ok
crazy shiz


and true, in a few years probs upgrade harddrive and transfer any data you want to keep to the newer one.

Working behind a computer on 12 hour shifts and rarely having work to do leaves me with a lot of spare time