7200-10000rpm?

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

Just a quick question.

Is the change and massive price difference from 7200rpm to 10000rpm worth it?

What kind of speed increase would I see?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
If you asked that a few months ago then people would be telling you the Raptor is the be all end all of super fast desktop HDDs. Now, however, there are HDDs that closely match the performance of the Raptor - namely the new Seagate 7200.10 HDDs.

While they aren't as fast, the fact is you can get 320GB or more capacity at a fraction of the cost of a 150GB Raptor. Definately better than a Raptor :).

SiriusB
 
One thing that people are neglecting to mention are seek times. While sustained transfer on newer 7200RPM drives might be getting near raptors the seek times are certainly not.

Lower seek times will make windows and other applications feel more responsive in general use.
 
I know the raptors are very expensive compared to larger other drives, but as said above, the seek time is almost half of a normal 7200rpm drive meaning surely I'd see a pretty big difference in Windows?
 
Well i've got a few raptors of all flavours, 36 (2 first gen ones though, so not really counting those),74 and 150 and don't see an insanely different speed, bit faster yes but nothing drastic, if you want superquick windows then get an iRAM from gigabyte, only 4gb (4x1gb) support though, got one and its terribly quick, wish it supported bigger sizes.
 
Justintime said:
Well i've got a few raptors of all flavours, 36 (2 first gen ones though, so not really counting those),74 and 150 and don't see an insanely different speed, bit faster yes but nothing drastic, if you want superquick windows then get an iRAM from gigabyte, only 4gb (4x1gb) support though, got one and its terribly quick, wish it supported bigger sizes.
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They perfected iRAM then? Does it store data now instead of loosing it all when you reboot?

Just been reading up on and and I see it's rather expensive - you have to buy the card itself which isn't too bad and then you have to buy a ton of RAM :eek:

I think i'll wait until I have more money for that one... :)
 
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It never lost it when you reboot, its got a battery. Longs as you're plugged in it'll be fine, the pci slot keeps it charged. Fully charged i've lost power once for 8 hours and it was fine after, my windows install was still intact.
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Ah, so you have to either take stick(s) out or loose power for ages ?

Think I'll wait until I've got more money to get iRAM, or until it's cheaper. An 8GB iRAM hard drive would cost a little too much :p

1GB iRAM drive wouldn't be too bad on money, but then I'd have no space to install anything! :(
 
For what it worths here how my raptor perfoms

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Having checked similar tests from 7200.10 the raptor is unmatched but it seems that it does use more cpu power
 
Hmmm, I really don't know if I'll go for one then. 137GB for £200 seems a little too much for a drive that won't make a massive difference.
 
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