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Originally Posted by oberon
If you really want fast HDs, get SCSI (you can afford it on a budget like that). Or if you insist on SATA, at least get a real RAID card, like a 3ware. Something that does RAID in hardware. Don't bother with RAID-0. It's completely pointless. If I'm doing RAID, it's RAID-1 or RAID-5.
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yes scsi will get you faster performance, but at a very high price, raiding several SATA drives will beat SCSI dollar for dollar with ease. And 4 in a RAID 0 are incredibly fast, more than he will use. He is looking for speed, so RAID 1 is not there, RAID 5 is nice but not all chipsets support it. he does not need to get a raid card to do raid either, onboard RAID from his nforce 4 chipset is solid, plus, to get any real performance boost beyond the onboard raid, a very expensive card is needed, $500-$1000, and blowing that much of his budget is not worth it, especially with a nice onboard raid such as the nforve4. RAID 0 is a bit risky if one fails everything is hosed, but keeping a good backup routine eliminates this threat. Maybe a raid 1+0 would be a good balance, 1 wasted drive, but no extra raid card needed.