Does anyone have Western Digital VelociRaptor or is running RAID 0 on their system?

[THOMAZ]

Is it better to have one 300GB HDD or two 150GB HDD runing in RAID 0 ? Also how much better are the Veloci Raptors to other hard drives on the market?

 

[Sofa King]

I was running mine in RAID 0 until I started running (the pair plus a third) in RAID 5.As for which is better, that depends on which is more important... a slight performance increase, or a relatively significant increase in data integrity. With the data spread over two drives with no parity, a failure of one drive means a loss of all data. I found this risk to be completely acceptable on my system drive, but not for my data (which was JBOD until I went RAID 5).10,000 RPM drives are significantly faster than 7,200 RPM drives in real world applications. Not only can they read/write faster, they have lower latency - that makes a big difference on small and frequent HD access. There are (and have been for a while) 15,000 RPM drives, but they are only available in SCSI.

 

[mattmagic100]

I can't say whether one 300gb beats two 150gb HDD or not but let me just say that Hard drives are about to be completely revolutionized by solid-state HDD though they are only available in 2.5" at the moment (to my knowledge). So if holding out is an option, maybe you should wait for them to release the solid-state in 3.5" format. There are no moving parts involved and the read and write speeds are nearly non-existant in comparison to older HDD. I know this isn't the answer to your question but it's just a suggestion.