PS. I should have also posted results from another Benchmark program - I also used SiSoft Sandra 2007. The original Maxtor 2 x 200Gb RAID 0 gave the results: Drive Index = 116 Mb/s Random Access Time 18ms My new Samsung 2 x 501LJ RAID 0 gave the following results: Drive Index = 146 Mb/s Random Acces...

For those of you who are interested, I have bought a second 501LJ, and set two of them up in a RAID 0 array. Good news is that they are very quiet! Am rather pleased with my new rig - VERY pleased with the Core 2 Duo and Artic Freezer Pro. The fan never appears to run very fast and is hence very qui...

Oh dear...... Have just used Performance Test 6.1 to measure performance of the HDDs. For the RAID I get: Sequential read = 117 Mb/sec Sequential write = 113.1 Mb/sec Random seek + RW = 11.3 Mb/sec For the HD501LJ: Sequential read = 65.7 Mb/sec Sequential write = 74.1 Mb/sec Random seek + RW = 2.95 ...

I've just bought the HD501LJ (took ages to choose a HDD, as there are SO many conflicting views on which drive is better, whether SATA II is better than SATA I etc. etc...) Anyway, have a lot of film editing to do, so have decided to upgrade my disks (bearing in mind capacity, speed and noise). Phew...