Storage Solutions Best candidates for OS Drive (Budget buys only)....and some RAID questions

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Vasishta.Sushant

Vasishta.Sushant

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I need a hard disk to be used my primary OS drive.

Since I already have a WD Caviar Green 1TB drive for my storage, I am not bothered about getting high capacity drives. Anything (even 80GB) under budget will do. Not looking to spend a bomb to get marginally better speeds.

Thinking of Seagate 500GB 12th generation drive. Retails for less than 2400 bucks. (or 1TB version of same drive for odd 4300 bucks).

Any other similarly priced options for me ?

Also I am not very sure about the RAID thing. Can I get two 500 GB discs and put them in RAID 0 and add another 1TB out of the raid ?
The 500gb pair will act as my primary drive and the other 1TB will be used as normal drive (for storage).

Or is it advisable to RAID 0 a seagate 1TB (7200RPM) with my current WD 1TB (variable, ~ 600 RPM) drive ?
Whatever be it, I do not want to spend a lot so please help me decide an optimum combination of price, performance and capacity.
 
2 500GB Seagate .12s in RAID 0 should be the best bet. Your data would be insecure so be warned.
 
why not rather buy 2 identical sata 80gb hdd from market section and raid 0 them... that way you can wrap up under 2k... sweet isn't it?

regards neo
 
I am also looking to get a new OS drive...which is better between the WD caviar blue and seagate 7200.12?
 
No suggestions yet??

Anyways will there be a difference between a 16mb and 32mb buffer drives when launching applications?
 
Which is the better drive between the WD Caviar blue 500gb and Segate 7200.12 500gb?

I need a drive which is quick to boot and launch applications. I have seen a few benchmarks which show the 7200.12 is slower during boot up and launch of applications, is that really the case?

My personal experience has been that WD boots quicker than segate.

I will be changing from a 4-5 yr old WD 320 gb hdd.
 
I bought WD Blue 500GB for its lower seek times, as compared to the Seagate ver 12 drives. I think Imade a good decision.

Additionally I I got two years more warranty, as compared to seagate.
 
seagate 7200.12 is not such a good idea. It has only one platter (whole 500GB).
Sequential read/write is good but Random read/write speeds are pathetic.
I have one as OS drive.
My 7200.11 performs way better.
 
^About 2400~2500 INR.

PS: Stick to WD. Seagate's warranty/RMA policy couldn't get any worse!
 
I'm looking at buying a 500gb internal HDD for my PC as an upgrade to retire my 80 GB. Anyone interested in the 80Gb, pm me.
 
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