10,000Rpm Difference?

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I wouldn't be spending £240 on a single mechanical HDD these days.

That sort of money will get you a decent SSD with a load of change left over. If you run it alongside the WD drive you have the best of both worlds - the stuff you need access to quickly goes on the SSD and the rest can stay on the WD drive.
 
sturmtruppe said:
Would I notice any diff going from a WD 1tb greenpower drive (I think these greenpower hdd's run slower than 7200rpm?) to a WD raptor?

specifically http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-343-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

I think my current HDD is letting my system down by slowing down load times in games, also notice quite a lot of pop ups in games like gta4.

ps I don't want to go for an SSD as they are too expensive for the capacity.
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yes will be a lot faster but a SSD will be a lot more faster but like you said there are expensive.

How about this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-239-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=167

You can still get a fair few games on if you make it you second drive meaning you install windows on a different drive.
 
Velociraptors are a waste of money. Barely faster than a 7200rpm drive, hardly noticeable, but so expensive.

For the same price as the 600GB VR you can get a decent SSD and one or two Samsung F3's.
 
andy_mk3 said:
10,000rpm: Slightly faster, a lot more noise. SSD can be found for cheaper and much more performance.
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At least my Vraptor doesn't require me to leave my computer on the log-in screen for a couple of hours a week to get garbage collection to work :D
 
i disagree to the above posts when i had a raptor load screens, boot up times general windows was a lot more responsive compared to a 7200 rpm drive

As for buying the 600 gb raptor maybe a waste of money but to buy a 74gb raptor 1000rpm for £65 and install a few games on i say thats a bargain unless you have a SSD
 
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The VR drives are very quiet. I can hear mine seeking, but only just. It runs better than a 7200 drive, random and seek are faster, plus, the 300Gb is enough for me to just forget about it. Its in there, its doing its thing, let it do it and I don;t have to worry about installing appps on different drives, configuring programs etc.

All my files are stored on a WHS system with 5Tb of drive space, so that aint a problem!
 
ive just been on the WD website to look up the stats of my current drive but it wont give the rpm of my current 1tb drive.

Instead it just reads;

"*x A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. Additionally, GreenPower drives consume less current during start up allowing more drives to spin up simultaneously resulting in faster system readiness."

which probbly means it spins at 5400rpm, so i reckon there will be some major difference.
 
The best bang for buck HDD out there is the Samsung Spinpoint F3 for £40, trust me I have an older Raptor and the SP is so much faster, BC2 maps load up in literally a few seconds

The only Raptors that are better are the newer ones but at over £200 its just not worth it as mentioned above
 
Bomag said:
At least my Vraptor doesn't require me to leave my computer on the log-in screen for a couple of hours a week to get garbage collection to work :D
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Yeah, garbage collection works any time at idle, (though trim/garbage collection does tend to be buggier on new drives till the kinks are worked out) and trim doesn't require the drive to be idle to work.

Intel, INdilinx drives, the Crucial marvell drives and most maintain the massive majority of their performance without needing to leave them idle for hours. Even when they've slowed down to awful degraded performance, they are still 10 to 100x faster than the very best raptor in most of the important situations, small read/writes, random anything, highest sequential read and writes( best ssd, 350mb/s read 220mb/s write, what, best Raptor 110mb read/write average?) and ridiculously faster access time.

Everything you want a faster spindle speed for, which would be access time and stemming from that, faster random read/write speeds, raptors are no where near fast enough and no where near a big enough jump over any decent 7200rpm drive to command the price difference, its barely noticeable in real world performance. Maybe in some light server oriented situations they'll open up a decent gap to 7200rpm drives, no home users will have those types of usage patterns.
 
People wonder whether ssd's will take on. Raptors deserve respect because they are engineered to the highest of the highest standards, but they are testament to the fact the platter hd's days are numbered. Was unsure before going ssd, but having taken the leap and been an ace away from grabbing a raptor;

Would't put one in my system if they were half the price.

They are like concorde, beautiful piece of pinnacle engineering, you would never call them crap or useless, but far too expensive, more prone to failure, and devices that exploit other means are just more efficient.

In short, I think they are obsolete- do not consider.

Far better, work out how many gb you spend 90% of your time using where hd speed matters. I bet you it is something like 60-70gb at an extreme- that would be an os, all small apps, 2 major programmes and 2 big games. Replace what you like, fact stands I challenge you to say that an ssd will not cover your main programme usage if you use it right.

80gb intel. 1tb f3. Spank a raptor left right and centre.
 
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Some absolute rubbish in this thread.

There's a reasonable jump in performance from a 7.2KRPM drive to a 10KRPM one - but not as big as going from a 10KRPM to an SSD.

I wouldn't touch any WD Raptor with SSDs being the price they are - you're far better dropping the cash on one of them instead.
 
If I had that kind of money to spend on one hard drive I would definitely get an SSD.

Ive had a WD raptor since the very first time they came out I think 7 or 8 years ago. That was the 32gb version. Then I got the 74gb version. The difference in speed at the time was noticeable, but maybe comparable to a decent 7200rpm drive nowadays. Just recently I got a middle of the range Crucial SSD and the difference is stunning.

I would say the HD you have linked - yes you will see a difference, but you can spend that money on a very decent SSD and you will be 100% better off.
 
I got a WD 300 gig 10k a while ago, but only because I REALLY needed the extra space, and I got a great deal on it (£75 :D). It definitely a bit snappier in windows and in games. But the main thing that's impressed me is any sort of installing or unzipping is MUCH faster than the pos old IDE 500 gig I was running from before. So it was a decent upgrade. But still want an SSD when I have the money and they get a but cheaper :D
 
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