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I will be using one of these configurations for my VMWare Workstation Development VM's (with the RAID setup I can probably get my games on there too). I will mostly be running a Win 7 VM with Visual Studio and SQL Server and I'm looking to get some better performance (load times, compile times, etc). Which of these configurations would you recommend for me? Thanks.
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Well, that's a tricky one... The RIAD-0 will give the better performance - 2 sets of heads moving independently coupled with double the data transfer bandwidth will easily out-perform a single set of heads even if the drive is spinning 33% faster. BUT You also double the chances of losing all your data if you have a disk crash. Lose one disk and you lose the content of both disks. If you run RAID-0 then backups are essential. Personally I would never ever recommend RAID-0 for anything other than scratch-space (storage for files that don't matter if they get lost), but if the speed is that important and you're happy with doing the backups (I'd have 2 RAID-0 setups and mirror them on a regular basis or something similar) and to take the risk of data loss then go for the RAID-0. | |||
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I think the Raptors will be faster for you. To put it simply: RAID 0 will have better bandwidth, but the Raptors will have better latency. For the workload you're describing, latency is going to be the more noticable because you're working with lots of disparate files rather than fewer, large files. | |||
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