Hi All,

Can somebody help me decide what is better - one 250 Gb hard drive or two 120 Gb hard drives ? Maybe its my years of DBA expirience tell me to go with two smaller discs But on the other hand I don't want unnecessary contention between HD's or HD/DVD reader/writer.

BTW, discs are : two 120 Gb Segate Barracuda's or one 250 Gb Maxtor Ultra (CHAINTECH 7NIF2 motherboard, just in case anybody interested).

Any comments ?

Thank you,
Andrew

i personally would go with one... if you get two you double:

1) heat one would assume
2) noise if both are working at the same time.. which they probley wont be
3) airflow would be better with 1.. as HD do block airflow. (depends on case design
4) two 120's arnt that much.. if you have 240 meg via the 2 120's how do you upgrade.. a third??? i wouldnt.. one big 250 is what i would/do use.

I would have to say one, just for the fact that it will be much easier to setup. Because knoppmyth doesn't support raid for autoinstall or LVM. RAID would require manual install, and LVM has to be setup after the fact.

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Thank you guys !

I'll probably go with one HD because of heat concern. I'm planning to use Athenatech "A106" case. It has two 3.5 bays for HDs but it is very small and I'm very concern about proper ventilation.

Thanks again,
Andrew

yes another good point, also you may want to concider going with a 5400 rpm drive for noise concerns. I know my 200Gb WD 7200RPM drive is too loud.

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