[thingie2]

Well I was wondering, how many disks is best for a RAID0 setup? as the more disk you have the greater read/write speeds you would get, but in i'm guessing the slower the access times.

I have the option to have either 4 normal speed 7200rpm drives, or I should get 2 10000rpm raptors, I want to know which will be the faster setup, and if I can later aford another 2 raptors, would that be faster than the 2 raptors if I make a new RAID with all 4?

Thanks

[Carbon]

I'd do the two Raptors in Raid 0 and then a separate 7200rpm for data. If one hard drive dies you'll lose everything in RAID 0 so you want a separate disk for valuable data.

[Gazmondo]

Originally Posted by thingie2 Well I was wondering, how many disks is best for a RAID0 setup? as the more disk you have the greater read/write speeds you would get, but in i'm guessing the slower the access times. I have the option to have either 4 normal speed 7200rpm drives, or I should get 2 10000rpm raptors, I want to know which will be the faster setup, and if I can later aford another 2 raptors, would that be faster than the 2 raptors if I make a new RAID with all 4? Thanks

2 Raptors in RAID0 for your primary drive, and that's all you'll need. The Raptors are fast enough alone, never mind using two in RAID0, you won't ever need to use more than two, the performance increase compared to the risk isn't worth it.

Just stick with 2, and spend extra on secondary / slave hard drives.