Actual game load time performance increase with Raptor? How much?

sniper007

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Ok so I want to buy a single HDD for games and OS to speed things up, since my other two HDDs are gonna be in RAID1 array. Been looking at the raptors obviously, and my main concern is whether it is worth the money. I am PURELY intersted in increased GAMING performance i.e. Level load times in CS:S, BF2, etc.

Can someone just quickly show me any benches to examplify that a raptor is worth it? For example, a Raptor vs a Samsung 7200rpm 8mb cache SATAII drive...what would be the difference in load times....are we talking like 3 seconds per map load? 10 seconds? Do the really load in " a 1/3 of the time" ?
 
I bought a Raptor last year for much the same reason you are looking to do so, also I like to have my os and installed apps/games etc on a totally seperate drive to my storage.

But to answer you question in short, no, it's not really worth the cost, it is not as fast as people offten make it out to be. It's a tiny bit quicker sure, but bear in mind I was coming from a 160gb Samsung spinpoint myself, not the words speediest of drives and while the Raptor is slightly quicker it isn't anything ground breaking, it's also a LOT noiser which really doesn't bother me but it might some people. If I was faced with the same choice again, I probably wouldn't bother to be honest.
 
Moeks said:
I bought a Raptor last year for much the same reason you are looking to do so, also I like to have my os and installed apps/games etc on a totally seperate drive to my storage.

But to answer you question in short, no, it's not really worth the cost, it is not as fast as people offten make it out to be. It's a tiny bit quicker sure, but bear in mind I was coming from a 160gb Samsung spinpoint myself, not the words speediest of drives and while the Raptor is slightly quicker it isn't anything ground breaking, it's also a LOT noiser which really doesn't bother me but it might some people. If I was faced with the same choice again, I probably wouldn't bother to be honest.
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Was that the 37GB raptor? Heard these are much more noisy. Im building a Silent PC so would get the 74GB and would be in a drive enclosure.
 
How much RAM do you have? If you have 1gig or less, in all likelihood you would see a bigger improvement in BF2 load times by investing in more memory as opposed to HD.
 
I have a raptor 36.7gb, and game a lot. i am pretty pleased with the load times especially on Source games i find i am usually the first to load the new map.
 
Ive been using the 74gig raptor for a while now, and find that I'm usually first on the map for CSS and BF2.. means I can get to the heli before other people spawn :D
 
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