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Re: what do you think of this for storage?
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Originally Posted by Synosure
Speed was most important to me. I spent $203 at NewEgg. I got 2 300gb SATA drives. I also got a PCI SATA card with hardware RAID. The drives are striped together into one massive 600gb drive in the BIOS. The hardware striping allows for faster writing then just having the drives by themselves.
I can still add another 2 300gb drives to the card ($89/drive) if I need more space.
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This sounds great until you have a problem. If you ever get a reboot in the middle of writing or have a power issue, boom! You will lose all 600 GB. If you are going for storage you should leave them seperate. Speed is good, but reliability is still important.
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