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krick:

--- Quote from: Wyluli on February 17, 2005, 12:40:06 pm ---Go buy yourself a nice 120 Gig hard drive.
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elvis:

--- Quote from: Trimoor on February 17, 2005, 12:30:37 am ---I tried raid 0 and it sucks.  It's just as slow, sometimes slower, and I lost two drives worth of data from it.

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No offense, but if RAID0 is slower for you than a single drive, then you've stuffed something up.  Simple as that.

Take it from someone who builds corporate level fibre-channel RAID arrays, NASs and SANs for a living. :)

Oh and while I'm here, and RAID for MAME really is pointless.  Load times are a couple of seconds at worst.  It's not like you're loading multi-terabyte files or anything that actually needs the speed of RAID.  Spend your money on something else more worthwhile.

Matt Berry:
Hey Krik what brand HD were you buying to have such a high failure rate?Ide or SATA and were they being cooled with fans?

As for the faster harddrive you might be better of just buying the 72Gb raptor and adding it to your system. It is much faster then the smaller 36gb drive.

krick:
Doesn't seem to matter which brand really.

I've had a western digital special edition drive fail,
a Seagate, an IBM, and a laptop drive, I can't remember if that was a Fujitsu or Hitachi.

BobA:
You probably have already noticed the reduced warranty on many drives lately.  Probably a sure sign of what is happening to quality in the race to get the most Gbytes per buck. 

Now the question is do corporate drives (meaning $) have the same failure rate?  Or do you get quality when you spend more?

I went the cheap way.   My main mame setup resides on my 80 Gig D drive and I boot from a 40 Gig C drive.   For backup I have a 200 Gig USB drive that I can move to any system easily.  It is a bit slower but only used for archive and video files.

BobA

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