Worth getting a Raptor?

Balls!!
Everyone seems to be bigging up the SAMSUNG F1.

I just purchased my RAPTOR last night.

What should I do, ahhh.
 
If noise/cost is an issue to you then go for the Samsung.... having owned both in recent times i can honestly say that it's a much better purchase and will free up £40 to spend on something else. :)
 
Cost really isnt a problem.
Some say its loud some say its not too bad. So everyone has different opinions.

I think I may stick with the RAPTOR. See what thats like in my bro's computer.

If I like it, I'll get the same for my new build in future.

But I would like to know where I can purchase the Samsung F1. Email me if anyone knows, much appreciated!

Bon
 
There's no ifs or buts about it... it IS loud. Very loud seeks and a ton of vibration. The Samsung is almost silent in comparison.
 
I'm running with 2x150gb raptors in Raid0, It's certainly quick - but the seek noise is insane. I had to stop windows running defrags/indexing etc overnight because it would wake me up :(

I've got a shuttle sd37p2 case, and afaik there's no way to make them any quieter.
 
Everyone knows that the Raptors are all SATA not SATAII right; thats the major downside of them and why the larger(single plator) drivers are faster...
 
I have both a raptor (which is being sent back for repair) & to replace it I got the Samsung F1 320GB Single Platter, and I have to say the Raptor is slightly faster on boot up (using Vista) but the Samsung is better at loading applications. If you can find one get a Samsung half the price and twice the storage:D:D:D:D
 
I have a RAID0 Pair of Raptor 74GB's. They can be noisy, but its not too mad, the best thing to do is not "dry" bolt them to your PC chassis, or your whole pc will hum :)

Use some sort of anti vibration kit. i.e elastic bands :)

I wouldnt worry so much about windows boot times so much as just pure loading performance from with Windows, my Intel Raid setup just after the bios takes about 10 seconds or so to init all the disks.
 
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@ mdixson, There is no such HDD feature as SATAII so you obv dont know what your talking about. ;)

I think you mean SATA300 and its makes ZERO difference to any single HDD, only the interface at MOBO if you Raid HDD's and get near 300MB/Sec.

SATA300 was new and WD did state they prefered to use a more mature interface at that time.
 
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I've had different raptors for the last few years in RAID0, and I must admit I do like how "snappy" the OS is why using them. I tried a couple of the single platter 250GB 7200.10s in RAID0 recently, and I must admit, although they gave high benches in HDTune/HDTach, in actual general usage, the RAID'ed Raptors runs my OS considerably better, and I was a bit disappointed with them, so I just went back to RAID'ed Raptors, running 2 x 36GB (16MB cache) at the moment...:)
 
Thats what many peeps dont understand, benches mean nothing in real use.

The actual feel of your OS is snappier and nothing can let you see/feel that unless you run it yourself.
 
I would say avoid the Raptors now as they are too dated. Sold one about a month ago (lost about £40 on it and it was as brand new-wish I never bought the thing). Got a Samsung F1 750 and that is very fast. Vista especially is a lot quicker in my opinion. XP feels a bit snappy with the Raptor but apart from that the lack of storage space and noise are signs of its age (no updates to the tech since 2006).

Samsung F1's are really good as are some of the other 32Mb cache HD's right now.
 
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