Raptor Drives Worth It?
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most noticable in load times and when doing hdd intensive things such as unrarin files and transfering them
Let's just say that you won't regret getting one, unless you get frustrated by being the first to load a map in a game and end up having to wait for everyone else to load 
It's a seriously good buy, all large programs load faster and everything seems more responsive
It's a seriously good buy, all large programs load faster and everything seems more responsive
I have a raptor 36gig drive and I use it to run windows and programs from. Its an excellent drive, but it has an annoying high pitched whine that is on all the time that annoys me a great deal.
I had 2 of them and had to sell one because of this annoying whine. If you have the cash and your not too enthusiastic about super quiet PC's then I would get one.
I had 2 of them and had to sell one because of this annoying whine. If you have the cash and your not too enthusiastic about super quiet PC's then I would get one.
This is IMO only OK ?
I have over the years had flagship model parts like best mobo/cpu and gpus at time of release, all made me happy but they were kinda all the same, my G Force 2 GTS Ultra at new was as good as a my G force 4 TI4600 at new same with my 6800 Ultra at new, but harddrive are near all same with a small difference in speed but Raptors we all know were 10,000rpm instead 7,200rpm, I was put off by small size until recenty, I got a new 150 Raptor X (soon to add 2nd for raid 0), Im honestly telling you its the best part Ive ever bought for any PC anytime, the difference is emense, I had a fast 300gig 16Mb SATA anyhow which unrared 350MB files in like 17sec and 700MB files in 30secs, well now thats down to 4secs and 9secs.
BTW going by HD-TACH's database both Raptor 36 and 74 now are beaten by good 300GIG 16MB drives, the 150 is new king, I get bang on the manu's rated sustained speed of 78MB (always hits 78.4MB).
Its cooler and quieter then before, only makes slight louder than other drives noise seeking, and I made it more noiser by turning of AMM (achostic management), its till ok and its not all the time its going to be heavily seeking.
Put it this way, Ive heard louder old tech drives like ata 100 40 GIGERS.
I have over the years had flagship model parts like best mobo/cpu and gpus at time of release, all made me happy but they were kinda all the same, my G Force 2 GTS Ultra at new was as good as a my G force 4 TI4600 at new same with my 6800 Ultra at new, but harddrive are near all same with a small difference in speed but Raptors we all know were 10,000rpm instead 7,200rpm, I was put off by small size until recenty, I got a new 150 Raptor X (soon to add 2nd for raid 0), Im honestly telling you its the best part Ive ever bought for any PC anytime, the difference is emense, I had a fast 300gig 16Mb SATA anyhow which unrared 350MB files in like 17sec and 700MB files in 30secs, well now thats down to 4secs and 9secs.
BTW going by HD-TACH's database both Raptor 36 and 74 now are beaten by good 300GIG 16MB drives, the 150 is new king, I get bang on the manu's rated sustained speed of 78MB (always hits 78.4MB).
Its cooler and quieter then before, only makes slight louder than other drives noise seeking, and I made it more noiser by turning of AMM (achostic management), its till ok and its not all the time its going to be heavily seeking.
Put it this way, Ive heard louder old tech drives like ata 100 40 GIGERS.
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Raid 0 is overrated imo unless you do mass dvd encoding or run benchmarks all day.
In real life performance in apps and games, the raid 0 setup produces next to no noticeable improvement over the one drive. Plus the risk of losing all your data is effectively doubled since if one drive fails, everything that was on both drives is lost.
I had a raid0 with 2x raptors and when I formatted I decided to try and see what one drive felt like in applications etc, and I didnt notice a difference. What I did notice though was that its more convenient and slightly faster to run one drive with windows, one drive with program files, and then a normal 7200rpm drive for all your downloaded stuff and my documents. But imo even this is overkill, so my advice - get one raptor, run windows and program files on it, and get another 7200rpm drive for all your data.
If you have important data to save, then you could get 2 raptors and run them in raid1, so you always have a backup drive incase your first one fails.
In real life performance in apps and games, the raid 0 setup produces next to no noticeable improvement over the one drive. Plus the risk of losing all your data is effectively doubled since if one drive fails, everything that was on both drives is lost.
I had a raid0 with 2x raptors and when I formatted I decided to try and see what one drive felt like in applications etc, and I didnt notice a difference. What I did notice though was that its more convenient and slightly faster to run one drive with windows, one drive with program files, and then a normal 7200rpm drive for all your downloaded stuff and my documents. But imo even this is overkill, so my advice - get one raptor, run windows and program files on it, and get another 7200rpm drive for all your data.
If you have important data to save, then you could get 2 raptors and run them in raid1, so you always have a backup drive incase your first one fails.