Keep WD Raptors Or Change To F3s?

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At the moment I have 2 WD 150 gig Raptors in raid 0 striped array.
I'm thinking of having 2 (may be 4) x Samsung F3s in raid 0 striped array instead.
Good or bad idea?
Will I see any performance gain out of the F3s over the Raptors in a raid array?

Thanks in advance.
 
i have a rig with a raptor 150 x and i changed it to a seagate 7200.11 320 and its faster than the raptor at everything

I done clean installs on both and test back to back and the seagate is faster at everything bar access time ( 10,000 vrs 7,200)



higher drive density = better performance


The F3 drive,s beat the veloraptors in most things too + you get huge storage.

You can have your cake and eat it !!!!!
 
KarlMcWade said:
i have a rig with a raptor 150 x and i changed it to a seagate 7200.11 320 and its faster than the raptor at everything

I done clean installs on both and test back to back and the seagate is faster at everything bar access time ( 10,000 vrs 7,200)



higher drive density = better performance


The F3 drive,s beat the veloraptors in most things too + you get huge storage.

You can have your cake and eat it !!!!!
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Access Time is actually pretty important though, which is why SSD's are such a big deal. Nobody really cares about 5% differences here and there in sequential transfers (an extra minute isn't so bad if you've already waited 20), but halving access times goes a long way towards keeping your PC feeling consistently fast in general use.
 
We are not talking about ssd drives here so please stay on topic, (if you want to make your own post i will be happy to talk about why SSD drives are better in performance).

The difference between a raptor 150 (which i have) and a F3 (which i have the slower seagate version of 7200.11) is the F3 is faster and the 6.7 to 8.9 access time isnt noticable

I run a fuj mau scsi 15k scsi array who access time access time is 3.1 and modern drives are faster sadly

And remember we are talking about nano seconds for a drive to respond !!!!!!!!
 
1 of my rig is actually running raid 0 raptor 150gb

and i happen to have just purchased a F3 1TB last week and installed it in another rig

i'm running the F3 just as a single drive and use it to load games.
i can tell you its quick, its a slight touch slower than raid 0 raptor 150gb
but dont forget i'm only running as a single drive, i'm sure running raid 0 F3 would be pretty fast

i have not done any benchmark, just speaking from general feel from the system
overall i was pretty supprise by the F3 from the performance i got.
 
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