Seagate disks on SATA

Gardinen · Jan 14, 2004, 12:22 PM

Just ordered two Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA disks. I was thinking of runnin them in RAID0.
Just currious if anyone else got the same setup and how it's like

Oh and also...will there be some kind of danger according to heat or something if I got three disks stacked on top of each other?? That is when they assambled in the Chieftec case

**Roadee** · Jan 14, 2004, 12:35 PM

The array should give you very good speed. Very nice increase, SATA Riad array's rule the working class computers

On the 3 disk thing.......do you have a fan behind the HD cage? If not you may want to have your RAID disks in there with a space in between. Then take you back up disk and mount it in a optical drive bay. That will keep the heat down to a minimun and allow better airflow in your case. Plus heat shortens the life of electronics.....so the cooler the better. How you do it is up to you though, it is pretty much a matter of choice.

Congrats on the RAID 0 SATA setup........you will love it

Gardinen · Jan 14, 2004, 12:40 PM

Well actually there is four disks, but I don't know if I'm gonna use the other disks anyway. A total disk amount of 240GB should be enough for my needs. And puttin in the two extra disks gives 360GB. But I doubt I would ever fill that up. Although could be quite cool when goin on LAN hehe.

Anyway, if a install a fan in the cage and got three drives in the cage, should I be OK??

krazy1 · Jan 14, 2004, 12:46 PM

Hell use 3 or even 4 of them and run RAID 5. Granted RAID 0 is faster but RAID 5 gives you fault tollerance.....

As for cooling, if you have the chieftech that has the fan in front of the lower 3 1/2" bays you will be fine. My drives stay nice and cool with that set up.

Gardinen · Jan 14, 2004, 12:52 PM

Okey. That was good to see (hear hehe).
Well the 80GB i a Maxtor which I think is going to die. Also the reason why I bought the new disks. And the my 46 gb IBM deathstar, which have been running great for about 4 years now, but a bit loud. And my 80gb western digital, which is REALLY noisy. The motor gives this anoying high frequensy sound, which drives me crasy.
So I think I'll just use the two 120GB + the Maxtor disk (which hopefully will run a bit more longer)

Although when using the fan in the drivercage, the disks gets a little to close to the graphics card. But I guess that if I want my drives to hold a bit longer I should need the fans.

Judas · Jan 14, 2004, 07:24 PM

run only hard drisk rated the same speed..... in raid arrays... size.. well.. the size really does matter... but just remember that the smaller of them all.. will be the base times the number of drives..... I myself am shooting to get 4 drives in raid 0...... and if i can muster it.... maybe 6 or 8..... all sata..... now that there.. would really be interesting to find out what my hardrive preformance will be like...(as of now... i'm pulling some very extremely impressive number just with my 2 30gb)

Jan 14, 2004, 12:22 PM	#1
Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	Seagate disks on SATA Just ordered two Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA disks. I was thinking of runnin them in RAID0. Just currious if anyone else got the same setup and how it's like Oh and also...will there be some kind of danger according to heat or something if I got three disks stacked on top of each other?? That is when they assambled in the Chieftec case

Jan 14, 2004, 12:35 PM	#2
Roadee Never forgotten Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rest In peace, Joe. Posts: 2,198 Rep Power: 69	The array should give you very good speed. Very nice increase, SATA Riad array's rule the working class computers On the 3 disk thing.......do you have a fan behind the HD cage? If not you may want to have your RAID disks in there with a space in between. Then take you back up disk and mount it in a optical drive bay. That will keep the heat down to a minimun and allow better airflow in your case. Plus heat shortens the life of electronics.....so the cooler the better. How you do it is up to you though, it is pretty much a matter of choice. Congrats on the RAID 0 SATA setup........you will love it __________________ We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Jan 14, 2004, 12:46 PM	#4
krazy1 Live from the Dungeon Join Date: May 2003 Location: Between the SubWoofers Posts: 1,395 Rep Power: 0	Hell use 3 or even 4 of them and run RAID 5. Granted RAID 0 is faster but RAID 5 gives you fault tollerance..... As for cooling, if you have the chieftech that has the fan in front of the lower 3 1/2" bays you will be fine. My drives stay nice and cool with that set up. __________________

Jan 14, 2004, 12:40 PM	Thread Starter #3
Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	Well actually there is four disks, but I don't know if I'm gonna use the other disks anyway. A total disk amount of 240GB should be enough for my needs. And puttin in the two extra disks gives 360GB. But I doubt I would ever fill that up. Although could be quite cool when goin on LAN hehe. Anyway, if a install a fan in the cage and got three drives in the cage, should I be OK??

Jan 14, 2004, 12:52 PM	Thread Starter #5
Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	Okey. That was good to see (hear hehe). Well the 80GB i a Maxtor which I think is going to die. Also the reason why I bought the new disks. And the my 46 gb IBM deathstar, which have been running great for about 4 years now, but a bit loud. And my 80gb western digital, which is REALLY noisy. The motor gives this anoying high frequensy sound, which drives me crasy. So I think I'll just use the two 120GB + the Maxtor disk (which hopefully will run a bit more longer) Although when using the fan in the drivercage, the disks gets a little to close to the graphics card. But I guess that if I want my drives to hold a bit longer I should need the fans.