A 150GB Raptor or another 74GB Raptor?

AFK_Matrix · 2 Jan 2007 at 14:03

Hi,

As you can see in my sig i have a 74gb raptor 8mb that is split like this:

25gb - Win XP & Programs
50 odd gb - Games

Now I just installed Rainbow Six Vegas last night and nearly hit the floor with it taking 7gb of hdd space lol :eek:

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Plus I have a load of other games I need to install and obviously all the future games that should be comming out this year. Now if other games are going to take up space like the rainbow six game i can see my raptor getting full pretty quick.

So i can either sell my 74gb Raptor and get the 150gb Raptor, buy another 74gb Raptor and raid them, or is it better to get one of these new segate drives? I don't need stupid amounts of space as i have a 300gb hdd and a fileserver I would just like something thats fast and will have enough space to accomodate future games.

Trox · 2 Jan 2007 at 20:37

I was in the same situation as yirself, limited room on a single raptor for gaming, was a pain having to uninstall to get somthing else on...

So i went and got another 74gb raptor for RAID0 and its pretty good, speed is excellent

But then if your just wanting more space then sell the drive and get the 150gb raptor, could always get another 150gb raptor at a later date if you feel the need.

oxygene · 2 Jan 2007 at 21:20

I say get another 74gb. If price isnt an issue then you may as well raid em and get the speeed boost for same capacity. some people may say it isnt a huge boost in speed, but who cares? if its a boost at all and its the same price as a slower way then do it!

AFK_Matrix · 3 Jan 2007 at 10:46

Ok so which is going to be faster 2 74gb Raptors in RAID or a 150gb Raptor. The only thing being is that my 74gb Raptor is the old 8mb version so that will be paired with a newer 16mb if that makes a differance.

inactionman · 3 Jan 2007 at 11:23

I was in a similar situation. I got a 150Gb Raptor to replace mine, imaged the original drive to the new one, wiped the original (using DBAN) and sold it on the popular auction site. I got £50 for the old drive. I recommend you do similar, although you may not get quite as much.

Speed wise, there shouldn't be much in it, as the new generation raptors are faster than the older ones, and AID0 speed increases really depend on if you are doing RAID in hardware or software, but a new raptor would probably still be slightly faster than 2 old ones in AID0 even if the RAID was done in hardware (from looking at the review on storage review).

You don't want AID0, mostly because the drives should be identical, and getting another identical raptor may be difficult (8Mb cache one's are probably hard to find). Although I'd suggest you want to avoid it with an older drive, as you are much more likely to have a drive failure and lose all your data (probably 60-75% more than a single drive, increased from the standard 50% due to the fact the one of the drives is older, more so if the second drive is also a used one). Then you have the whole problem of twice the noise, heat, power draw, space, etc. A single drive is better IMHO.