Greetings All, well the skys haven't been real friendly lately for me.Just had my 2nd harddrive crash since Jan. Have been running seagates 80g 7200 8mb in raid o+1 Since its still under warranty i thought i would ask if i purchase 2 WD Raptors at 10000rpm in raid will i see an improvemt in fs9 PROFORMANCE?aNY HELP WILL BE MUCH APPRECIEATED.Best regardsAndrewP4 3.4Asus P4C800-E deluxe2GB Corsair dual channelATI X850XTAudigy 2 ZS

FS may load a little quicker with these drives, but once she's going you'll barely notice the difference. If you run these drives in striped raid mode (whatever that raid mode number is), your chances of hard drive failure trashing your data are increased significantly - either drive fails and your data is gone. Given your drive failure experience, you might want to run in mirror raid mode (whatever that raid mode number is).Gary

>Greetings All, well the skys haven't been real friendly>lately for me.Just had my 2nd harddrive crash since Jan. Have>been running seagates 80g 7200 8mb in raid o+1 >Since its still under warranty i thought i would ask if i>purchase 2 WD Raptors at 10000rpm in raid will i see an>improvemt in fs9 PROFORMANCE?>aNY HELP WILL BE MUCH APPRECIEATED.The Raptors will improve load time as was said but that's it. Raid'ed Raptors are amazing to behold in some applications that's for sure; but for ideal data integrity and long-term reliability, that's not the way to go. For outright performance, it is. It depends on what you want out of the system.In my opinion, if I had crashes like you've had, I'd get a 250 gig 7,200 rpm Western Digital drive, don't use any RAID, and be done with it. Maybe get an external hd of the same size for frequent backups.Rhett

I suggest Segate brand. They've always been impressively reliable compared to the other brands though I note they were recently purchased by Maxtor. -wince-

I too like Seagate over the years, they and Western Digital have been the best for me. Rhett