Raptor or 2x 7200.10's

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Ok So I own a 74GB Raptor and a pair of 7200.10's

I'm considering selling my Raptor and using the Seagates in RAID 0. And then purchasing another pair of Seagates(Possibly)...

What do you guys think? Will there be much difference in performance? And in what areas would I notice it?
 
As a generalisation - the raptor will give better performance when working with lots of small files i.e. booting up windows and seagates in RAID0 would give better sustained transfer rates i.e. file compression/decompression... gaming it tends to balance out as most games use a mixture of lots of small files and a few large files when loading...

Personally I'm not a big fan of raptors but I wouldn't say no to 4 of them in RAID0 :D I'd say sell the raptor while they still command a price premium.
 
Rroff said:
As a generalisation - the raptor will give better performance when working with lots of small files i.e. booting up windows and seagates in RAID0 would give better sustained transfer rates i.e. file compression/decompression... gaming it tends to balance out as most games use a mixture of lots of small files and a few large files when loading...

Personally I'm not a big fan of raptors but I wouldn't say no to 4 of them in RAID0 :D I'd say sell the raptor while they still command a price premium.
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Gotcha... well I will be playing some games and storing a lot of large files. So I guess Seagates are the way to go.
 
Hmmm. I currently own 3 x 320gb 7200.10 drives and was considering purchasing a 150gb raptor for my os drive. I did have 2 of the drives in raid 0 when i had xp, but when installing vista i couldn't be bothered setting up raid again. Are 2 of these in raid 0 really that close to a raptor in performance?
 
2x Seagate 7200.10 in RAID0 can't touch the raptor for access times - which makes the raptor seem faster and more responsive when working in windows generally - however the RAID0 array will have a moderatly higher sustained transfer rate than the raptor making them much better for any situation where you are working with lots of data/large files... (40-80MB/s (raptor) against 80-140MB/s (RAID0))
 
get two Raptors in RAID 0 array if you can. That is the best all round option for speed. Then have a large capacity hard disk for backup. More expensive but certainly gives you the best of both worlds.
 
XtAsY said:
get two Raptors in RAID 0 array if you can. That is the best all round option for speed. Then have a large capacity hard disk for backup. More expensive but certainly gives you the best of both worlds.
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I've decided to go for two 320GB 7200.10's in RAID 0 and then a 500GB drive as backup :)
 
i use a 150gig raptor as my os drive, although i got less than 30 gigs on stuff on it reason i got it was because its fast and reliable. built like scsi drives so should last a while even when running 24/7.

use 1 of those raptors as your boot and os drive and sell the other. thats what i say.
 
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