Velociraptor 74GB or 150gb

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Going for one of these as my new games disk, does anyone know the implications of the choice? IE is the 150 faster than the 74 due to a more heavily packed platter? Or is anyone using either of these drives?

Many thanks in advance
 
Personally, and this is just my opinion, I see little adavantage of using the 10,000RPM drives over 7,200. Most of the high density 7,200 drives available today, such as the Sammy T1s, are just as fast. Plus you get much higher disk capacity for your money and are not as noisy.
 
Doubtful if there is any speed difference between the 150 and the 74 - i'd imagine the physical disk platter size is the same for the 74 as it is for the 150 they just disable the extra space on the 74, so you can't use it.

I wouldn't imagine they'd alter the manufacturing process just to distinguish the 150 from the 74 in terms of it's physical mechanics.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
Most of the high density 7,200 drives available today, such as the Sammy T1s, are just as fast.
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No where near "just as fast", not in MB/Sec or SEEK.

@ OP, Instead of answering your post with off topic 7.2K info I will tell you the 150GB is a Single Platter so I would guess the 74GB is a Short Stroked 150GB so could be faster but I ain't seen any reviews of it yet.

Another thing, I do not even rate Sammy as a Tier 1 HDD Manu and the F1's (I guess he meant this not T1) are dropping like Flies (failures).
 
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The 300gb is quiet, although not as quiet as i'd of hoped, i get a certain low pitched resonating sound coming from mine, i think its the 3.5" housing it comes mounted to. That got quite annoying, but inside a 5.25" nexus quiet housing it's dead silent - perfect.
 
jellybeard999 said:
If you're dead set on raptors, look into getting some SAS Cheetahs :)
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I don't think my SAS cheetahs are worth it over a Velociraptor. They are quite loud and aren't even as fast as Velociraptors in a lot of single-user scenarios as they are optimised for heavy-usage scenarios with lots of random requests e.g. ideal for a database server. The transfer rates are good though.

Also you'd need a SAS controller which don't come cheap and if you want to go the whole hog, some SAS backplanes too.

I was intending on buying a SAS RAID controller anyway for decent RAID5 performance so I decided to get a couple cheetahs because at the time the velociraptors hadn't been released and the 74GB Cheetahs were around £90 so not too bad on price.
 
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Yeah I would like to go down the SAS route for an experiment / play but It would be an expensive experiment which I cannot afford at the moment, as I wouldnt want to just fit any old RAID card, I believe you would want one in place though if you are looking at RAID 5....
 
I'm using the 300GB VelociRaptor at the moment and I can hardly hear it, i had a Reptor X before it which was a lot louder, but the VR is so much quieter and very quick :)

I've only got the one drive though, so have Vista on it with a few games, wondering whether to get another one for installing games on..hmm
 
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