Velociraptor vs Samsung 1TB drives

Darkman · 29 Jul 2008 at 15:43

Has anyone had the pleasure of owning both? I've bought a couple of Samsung's for my new build and was debating the merits of RAID 0 or getting a velociraptor for the system/game drive.

I have seen a few reviews which suggest the difference in loading times for OS & game levels is slight but noticeable.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3291&p=8

http://www.storagereview.com/WD3000BLFS.sr?page=0,3

I'm interested in your perception if you've used both.

bledd · 29 Jul 2008 at 15:54

as a 74gb raptor owner (who is about to sell them)

i reckon save your money and get an F1 instead

when the first raptors came out, nothing came close in performance, the newer raptors are still awesome, but the main differences you'll find are multi-user benchmarks (pointless for a home user) and windows boot times

i'm now getting rid of my raid0 raptors and getting either a 640gb wd drive or an F1 640

bledd · 29 Jul 2008 at 15:57

at the time i bought mine, my 74gb was £200 (and a 160gb normal drive would've been around £100) -basically paying twice as much per Gb

now 1000gb is £85, and 300gb raptor is £200

~works out about 8.5p per Gb in the samsung and 66p per Gb in the raptor, which is almost eight times as much per Gb

and the performance gap is a LOT smaller now than ever

kevc4 · 29 Jul 2008 at 16:41

can u tell me why you are getting the 640 (why that size) and are you going to raid 0 them?

is it worth putting them in raid 0?

bledd · 29 Jul 2008 at 17:51

i'm not going to raid them, because 2x640 is a lot of data to potentially lose (and it's a crazy ammount for a system drive, heck even 320gb is a large ammount)

the 640gb drives have 2x320gb platters (which means they're fast)

Mud · 29 Jul 2008 at 20:06

bledd. said:
at the time i bought mine, my 74gb was £200 (and a 160gb normal drive would've been around £100) -basically paying twice as much per Gb

now 1000gb is £85, and 300gb raptor is £200

~works out about 8.5p per Gb in the samsung and 66p per Gb in the raptor, which is almost eight times as much per Gb

and the performance gap is a LOT smaller now than ever

That's ~four times the price/GB.

bledd · 30 Jul 2008 at 10:32

oh yeah, whoops

but the latter is still correct

IAmATeaf · 30 Jul 2008 at 23:19

Mud said:
That's ~four times the price/GB.

It is almost 8 times the price isn't it?

Xtrema · 30 Jul 2008 at 23:27

I have a Velociraptor for system and games. Also a Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB for everything else. Although the Velociraptor is faster, i wouldn't say the difference between them is huge.

bledd · 31 Jul 2008 at 01:29

IAmATeaf said:
It is almost 8 times the price isn't it?

he bold-quoted my mistake

kkbigal · 31 Jul 2008 at 09:07

The noise of the Raptor drives is also really loud. I bought a 300gb one some time ago and it's fast, but it rattles and buzzes something rotten

Xtrema · 31 Jul 2008 at 14:35

kkbigal said:
The noise of the Raptor drives is also really loud. I bought a 300gb one some time ago and it's fast, but it rattles and buzzes something rotten

I'm happy to say that although i can hear my Velociraptor, i wouldn't consider the sound to be at all obtrusive and it's sitting on the desk right next to me in my Antec 1200.
An old Quantum Fireball i once, now that made a horrid din.

Darkman · 31 Jul 2008 at 18:35

Xtrema said:
I have a Velociraptor for system and games. Also a Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB for everything else. Although the Velociraptor is faster, i wouldn't say the difference between them is huge.

Thanks for that. Do you join game servers noticeably quicker than others?

With the benefit of your experience would you recommend the same solution to others?

Xtrema · 4 Aug 2008 at 00:49

Darkman said:
Thanks for that. Do you join game servers noticeably quicker than others?

With the benefit of your experience would you recommend the same solution to others?

Without fail i'm always the first one on the server regardless of which game i'm playing.
It's a solution which works for me as i hoped it would.

Cupra · 4 Aug 2008 at 01:01

Xtrema said:
Without fail i'm always the first one on the server regardless of which game i'm playing.
It's a solution which works for me as i hoped it would.

and me i love my valociraptrs

FreeStream · 4 Aug 2008 at 01:20

Xtrema said:
Without fail i'm always the first one on the server regardless of which game i'm playing.
It's a solution which works for me as i hoped it would.

Until someone RAIDs SSDs and then you'll be second

bledd · 4 Aug 2008 at 09:20

Darkman said:
Thanks for that. Do you join game servers noticeably quicker than others?

With the benefit of your experience would you recommend the same solution to others?

yes, much quicker

i used to love this when i had my dual 74gb raptors, and everyone else was on normal 80gb drives

then they bought in the 'auto restart' thingy in cs, where the round restarts (rendering it pointless

)

Xtrema · 4 Aug 2008 at 12:02

Concorde Rules said:
Until someone RAIDs SSDs and then you'll be second

LOL naturally. But there ain't many of them so i'll be happy with second occasionally