raid 0 7200 or raptor?

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im in a predicament that my 74gb raptor has unfortunately become a tad too small to hold all of my games, os and applications.

So I've been debating going raid 0 with some 7200 drives (probably a pair of 500gb since I already own one) yes I know the space would be ludicrous but the price/gb is right on those.

That or I buy an raptor 150gb X drive to upgrade my current raptor.

The only other alternative would be to pick up another 74gb raptor but I think my raptor is an 8mb version and not 16mb. I've owned it for a fair while.

What do you guys think?
 
depends on how much you have to spend and how much u want too store, i was goign too buy 2 raptor xs and raid them but went for another spinpoint 250gb and raided that with my exisiting drive, so nice space and large enough for me :) all depends whether u can justify 100+ on hard drives
 
If you're looking to improve performance in windows/games then I'd go for a single Raptor 150GB.

I know it isn't the best bang/buck and has a terrible price/gb ratio in comparison to 7,200rpm drives. It all depends what you're looking for, space or best performance in key areas (within reason).
 
Toms Hardware recent reviews of the current crop of 750Gb and 1Tb drives beat the raptors on most applications. I am tempted to replace my two raptors with a couple of 1Tb drives as soon as the price comes down a bit.
 
7,200rpm drives have competed well with the Raptor for a while now in a lot of tests but the Raptor's strength has always been in gaming which Toms Hardware don't test. They only seem to do synthetic benchmark testing.

Have a look around for actual application benchmark tests and you'll see the Raptor is still king (although by a smaller margin these days).
 
Raptor 16MB is not too new now, still fastest for SEEK's and up there for Average Sustained Read (sone sites are showing Max Sustained Read when testing new HDD's so 95MB/Sec is BS).

If you already have Raptor 16MB's Drives, apart from space I see no reason to change.
 
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