Much advance in speed recently?

Jimbo Mahoney · 24 Jan 2008 at 17:40

I've been running a 36GB Raptor as my OS drive and a 200GB WD 7.2k as my games drive.

I'm assuming most advances are in HDD size, rather than speeds / access times?

In essence, if I don't need the space, is there any benefit to changing my drives?

Humate · 24 Jan 2008 at 19:46

if its an old WD then a new aaks or a seagate 7200.11 would obviously offer some performance increase. I am not sure how much though. I cant see that it would be enough to warrant the money personally.

Spleenus · 24 Jan 2008 at 20:11

The Raptors are still much faster than current offerings and are holding their value too. I've still got my 74Gb Raptor and I'll be keeping it for a fair while.

balls · 26 Jan 2008 at 08:38

Spleenus said:
The Raptors are still much faster than current offerings and are holding their value too. I've still got my 74Gb Raptor and I'll be keeping it for a fair while.

As far as seek times go, they still are.

Talrinys · 26 Jan 2008 at 12:15

Seek times have gotten better, the Seagate 7200.11s are 12.5ms compared to 15ms for my 7200.10. Also the transfer rates are a lot higher, again the 7200.11s do an average of 80-85mb/s.

If you really want performance, give SSDs some time to mature and stick with what you have, you won't regret it.