10K Drive worth it?

gazfocus · 1 Jan 2008 at 15:46

helmutcheese said:
Yes as the 8MB Raptors are slow by todays standards.

Thanks so will the Samsung perform better or the Raptors?

helmutcheese · 1 Jan 2008 at 15:53

Single HDD yes 100% may not match SEEK, your 8MB's in Raid not sure, you need tell me your AVG MB/SEC.

easyrider · 1 Jan 2008 at 15:57

No way a single samsung is as fast as two raptors in Raid 0

helmutcheese · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:04

What do 2 8MB Raptors hit ?

gazfocus · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:08

I'm not sure. I've not really done benchmarks or anything. Will the loss is speed be that noticeable? If so, I may resort to buying some bigger raptors

easyrider · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:09

You need more than 150 gig for your OS and apps?

helmutcheese · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:18

Well I normally have 300GB as 2x Raptor X's in Raid0 and I have a 500GB external for back up.

gazfocus · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:20

easyrider said:
You need more than 150 gig for your OS and apps?

Not particularly but it's nice to have the space there. Most of my files (music, videos, etc) are on a completely seperate drive but I do run some pretty huge apps (such as Adobe CS3 Master Collection, Cakewalk Sonar Producer, ProTools, etc) so the space is kinda necessary.

easyrider · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:27

I have Adobe production Studio installed plus loads of other apps and have never needed more than 150GIG for my OS and apps.

All music/videos etc...are strewn across 3x 500 GIG drives.

I woud of kept the raptors as getting a single samsung is a downgrade.

milkinc13 · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:32

helmutcheese said:
As Topic £10, 000 is a lot of money for a HDD.

exactually what i thought when I saw the thread title

gazfocus · 1 Jan 2008 at 16:37

easyrider said:
I have Adobe production Studio installed plus loads of other apps and have never needed more than 150GIG for my OS and apps.

All music/videos etc...are strewn across 3x 500 GIG drives.

I woud of kept the raptors as getting a single samsung is a downgrade.

I didn't sell the raptors purely due to the samsung, if you think about it, my Raptors were quite old (I think the newest of the 2 was 3 years old) and thought it'd be best selling them while they have some warranty left. May still replace them with new raptors though

BobBrainy · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:03

so whats the consensus guys, raptor x worth twice as much as a good 7200 drive?

helmutcheese · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:08

Well I paid £237 each at launch, and its easily at that time the best bit of hardware I ever bought, I noticed a bigger gain all round that a new GPU or CPU gave me each new Gen.

Would I buy one now even though cheaper, well I aint sure on that as 7200k rpm are near same speed apart from Seek.

BobBrainy · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:29

so it isnt worth twice as much as a comparable 7200drive?

helmutcheese · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:35

I really dont want to even try answer that, the Raptor threads end up full of Trolls arguing.

Im happy with mines, I do not regret buying for a " through the roof cost " at launch.

I would probably still buy now at lower cost if there was not going to be any new Raptors (we hope for new ones in 2008), if they add " Perpendicular Recording " and a SATA300 interface to them it will again KILL any other SATA HDD.

Thats the real reason newer 7200K HDD's are near as fast, they cant do much more at that spindle speed, but setting out the DATA standing upwards instead of lying down makes it faster.

Imagine a Raptor with 1 single 100GB Platter which using above can hold 200GB, then add SATA300 and 32MB Cache

easyrider · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:37

I love my Raptor 150 GIG

helmutcheese · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:43

JackRegan · 1 Jan 2008 at 17:51

Loved all my Raptors :cool:

BobBrainy · 2 Jan 2008 at 00:22

perhaps a slightly different take on the situation but bare with me

would I be better off sticking with my 74gb 8mb cache raptor or getting a 500gb seagate 32mb drive?

thanks.

gazfocus · 2 Jan 2008 at 00:49

BobBrainy said:
perhaps a slightly different take on the situation but bare with me

would I be better off sticking with my 74gb 8mb cache raptor or getting a 500gb seagate 32mb drive?

thanks.

Yeah that's the question I was asking as I've just sold my Raptors