7200-10000rpm?

Cheekykid · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:26

Craig321 said:
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.

It's only a hard drive. You can't expect THAT much unless your raid them i think

manoz · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:51

Heck even RAIDing them for real world tasks isn't even worth it according to anandtech.com. Take a look at this for level loading times in Far Cry http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2101&p=10. This was done back in 2004 so I don't know whether the new generation ones have made it more worthwhile.

Justintime · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:53

Nope, theres no huge difference.

Cheekykid · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:57

Well i have heared some guys saying that after raiding 4 drives they saw huge differences such as booting times etc. I believe that a difference would be obvious if you try to transfer a big file but apart from that i cant see how RAID can help. Anyone else view on this?

Cheekykid · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:58

Craig321 said:
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.

It is too much. I do notice a difference while trasnfering files but nothing HUGE. Haven't tried boot times yet

Justintime · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:26

Cheekykid said:
Well i have heared some guys saying that after raiding 4 drives they saw huge differences such as booting times etc. I believe that a difference would be obvious if you try to transfer a big file but apart from that i cant see how RAID can help. Anyone else view on this?

Pretty much what you said, its good for working with huge files like video and whatnot but otherwise its not so hot. I've been using RAID for a long time in server builds and its mostly for redundancy, speed is improved as little but nothing earth shattering.

Craig321 · 31 Aug 2006 at 02:56

Thanks for the comments guys

Won't be buying one now that I know it doesn't make so much difference

Cheekykid · 31 Aug 2006 at 03:12

Craig321 said:
Thanks for the comments guys

Won't be buying one now that I know it doesn't make so much difference

Better keep the money for a gpu. I have been pondering about buying 2nd raptor but i get mixed information as to their perfomance