Raptor in a Shuttle ST20G5

Mikey · 22 May 2006 at 11:37

I've got a new Shuttle system being built at the moment, I'm just waiting for the AMD 3700+ chip.

Now I'm using my old drives in this set-up, 1 x 36GB Raptor and 1 x Samsung Spinpoint. My main concern is about the 2 drives mounted together, normally I wouldn't be too worried but as it's a Raptor am i pushing it with this set-up. If I need to change it I'd sell the raptor and try and get another Samsung 160GB and make it RAID 1

Ladforce · 22 May 2006 at 13:21

what are you worried about? the heat?

Mikey · 22 May 2006 at 13:35

Ladforce said:
what are you worried about? the heat?

Yes sorry, I mean't the heat.

Messiah Khan · 22 May 2006 at 14:13

I can't fully comment, as I don't have a shuttle, but my 36Gb raptor doesn't actually push out much more heat than my other drives. If I was you, put the drives in and keep an eye on the temperature through something like speedfan. As long as they don't go over 40-45 you should be fine.

Mikey · 23 May 2006 at 15:10

Well time will tell, still tempted to try and find a 160GB Spinpoint drive so I can go RAID 1 as not sure how much difference a Raptor really makes.

noxidjkram@hotm · 23 May 2006 at 18:01

A Raptor absolutely rocks for quick loads.

Major downside is noise.

I have a 74 (brand new - used once) and a 36 sitting here unused because they are so noisy.

I use a Sammy 250 - lovely quiet and reasonably fast drive.

M

Mikey · 25 May 2006 at 09:59

I don't think it's massively quick in my new shuttle, it used to be quick in my old system when I was running a seperate Adaptec 1210SA RAID card as I used to run two of them in a RAID 1 stripe but then sold one and return to JBOD.

I have to agree it is very very noisey, so I'm even more tempted to get a 2nd 160GB Samsung and return to a RAID 1 strip but across two 160 Samsung drives. Equally I'm not sure if I'm happy with my new Shuttle system so tempted to just sell it on anyway and use my company laptop for a while

TooNice · 25 May 2006 at 20:03

Interesting. In my experience, the Raptor is the noisy when seeking, but only when seeking. The idle noise is nothing remarkable: not particularly noisier than many 7200RPM drives, nor quieter.

noxidjkram@hotm · 25 May 2006 at 23:48

Raptors have an annoying click when not seeking sometimes - it seems to just tick over. Well, mine did anyways...

M

whatever · 26 May 2006 at 10:02

i used to have a ST20G5 before becoming wiser an decided to stick to my trusty MAC

for 100% of my computing.
i used it with a samsung SATA2 250gb and was fantastic. quiet, reasonably fast and did not have to be worried about heat.
don't forget that 2 drives in the shuttle are stuck together...hence no air passing through. I would stick to 1 drive plus 1 external drive for backup, unless you do a raid 1 system. in that case, even if 1 drive fails for overheating...who cares....you've got a mirror copy.