Re:Hard Disk (Score 1)

unless the benchmarks I've seen are wrong, you better add the rider 'and make gosh darn diddley sure you aren't using some )*&)*( "INTEGRATED" ATA RAID, or some barely modified ATA controller. the differance between a promise fast trak, (a promise ata100 controller that's gotten a new firmware) and a supertrak, with cache, and an asic is the differance between JBOD, and a striping configuration with benefits like higher throughput and lower proc usage. also 'you nitwits always griping about how raid 0 is dangerous should all take a long walk off a short pier' 1 HDD is rated tor 10K hours MTBF. take 2 HDDs, and you need both of them working flawlessly to boot every morning, and the same to store your pirated muzack, then you no longer have that MTBF. with 2 drives that each have a 50% chance of not reaching 10K, suddenly, to reach 10K, there are 4 outcomes, and only 1 will leave you a happy camper with your cheesecake pics of that studly elvish feller in the LOTR