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One 2TB WD Black or two 1TB WD Black Hard Drives?

legend8887
By legend8887
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For my new build I'm wondering if I should get a one 2TB HDD or two 1TB HDD's and set them up in RAID 0. Already used about 630GB in this PC that I'm going to sell.

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I'd say one 2TB but the RAID 0 will have more read/write speed.

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depends if you use it as storage then get 2tb black if you are using it for progames/games/OS then get the two 1TB

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What's the system being used for? Why raid?

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What's the system being used for? Why raid?

I want maximum performance. Gaming and maybe some video editing.

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I want maximum performance. Gaming and maybe some video editing.

If you want maximum performance, go put some enterprise pci-e ssd's in raid 0.

 

For one, caviar blacks aren't worth the money over the quite cheaper and slightly slower barracudas. Also, you can put 3 barracudas in raid 0 for the price of 2 blacks--not that I'd recommend it. Hard drives in raid 0 are only useful for loading large media files onto a scratchdisk for editing.

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