Much of a difference - 2x36GB Raptors or 2x250GB 7200.9's

AP0ll0UK · 10 Aug 2006 at 20:12

Would there be much of a difference both noticible and performance wise between two 36GB Raptor's or two 250GB Seagate 7200.9's in Raid-0?

scott.holmes · 10 Aug 2006 at 21:17

Yeah, the Raptors are great fast drives and will work much better and faster in Raid. You will notice the difference too in the heat, the run quite hot (well mine did) and they are quite noisy too.

Cost a fair bit more than the 7200.9s too

Greenlizard0 · 12 Aug 2006 at 22:09

Aye, their price really hasn't dropped that much which is quite disappointing to be honest. They run extremely hot - the only component that I can touch after switching the pc off.

Richdog · 12 Aug 2006 at 22:14

AP0ll0UK said:
Would there be much of a difference both noticible and performance wise between two 36GB Raptor's or two 250GB Seagate 7200.9's in Raid-0?

The 36GB raptors were awful and most modern 250GB drives with NCQ are actually almost equal and sometimes greater in speed. I'd have the 500GB any day of the week, you wouldn't notice any difference in performance and you'd have a hell of a lot more space to play around with.

Messiah Khan · 12 Aug 2006 at 22:42

Richdog said:
The 36GB raptors were awful and most modern 250GB drives with NCQ are actually almost equal and sometimes greater in speed. I'd have the 500GB any day of the week, you wouldn't notice any difference in performance and you'd have a hell of a lot more space to play around with.

Im assuming your talking about the older 36Gb raptors, and not the newer ones that are on par with the 150Gb raptors in performance terms. Also what is with people having high temps with Raptors? Mine is currently at 35degrees which is the same as my other drives.

Slackworth · 12 Aug 2006 at 23:10

I'd also be getting 7200.10s rather than 7200.9s.

Mikey · 15 Aug 2006 at 12:07

Mmmm I'm tempted to sell my Raptor WD360GD and move to another new larger drive.

These days though I have

WD360GD = Windows XP and progs
Samsung 160GB = Music and general downloads / ISOs
Seagate 200GB = Virtual Server images

So I'm still also tempted to get another WD360GD of MM and run it in RAID 0

As for backups I run a ntbackup every week onto an external 160GB USB2 drive that captures all my docs, favourites and iTunes. As for mail, doesn't need to be captured as it's Exchange 2003 hosted.

So the question is what to do mmmm