Hitachi 250GB SATA2 For 150GB Raptor???

[Pulsedriver]

Hi,

I have a Hitachi 250GB SATA-2 Drive as my main hard disk, and was wondering, if the new WD Raptor 150GB would be a noticeable improvement in speed?

Im not bothered about loosing the 100GB storage space if the Raptor is considerably (and noticeably) faster.

I do a lot of Audio work, the 2nd hard drive is a 160GB Hitachi SATA-2, and the storage of my music work, however the main drive above is where Windows and my music programs, games etc are installed, so the 16MB cache of the Raptor could help a lot?

Any thoughts folks?

Sean

 

[Pulsedriver]

I just ran a HD Tach (quick test) and here is the result;

24MB slower than your Raptor in the average read!!!