Raptors or not

chaparral said:
Just a single 150gb raptor is beating even two the seagate 7200.10 in raid in almost all them game install and game level load tests...
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I could have sworn that test was against Raid Raptors :S

Ah well my bad :o

Eitherway the 7200.10's are still damn fast at burst speeds and consec reads, and is it really worth shelling out all that money on a Raptor for 1sec or so difference? Its £168 for 2 x 400Gb 7200.10's... a single 150Gb Raptor is £165...

So you can either have 800Gb of RAID 7200.10, or 150Gb Single Raptor for the same money...

I just can't see how the Raptor is worth that much over the 7200.10's...

Meh, each to their own I guess :D
 
There are some confusing posts...

To clarify. Is there any point in getting a couple of the newer 36GB raptors for system space (16meg buffer ones), or save more and fork out for 150GB ones? Even though I'll never use 300GB for OS and games but for the sake of performance?
 
SameSuspect said:
well iv taken the plunge! 2 74's will turn up tommorow! £200 on a pair of hdd's tho.. hope i dont get disapointed!
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I've had exactly these in RAID0 for 2 months now - it's a treat, you won't be disappointed. Windows starts in 20 sec, shutdown in like 5-10 sec. Games load blimming fast, i'm always the 1st one spawning on the battlefield! ;-)
 
Dr_Evil said:
If it's the new model with 16Mb cache, it should do nicely for your windows drive and you won't be disappointed!

I used the 8Mb model for my system drive for a year or so, it worked a treat and was very fast and reliable...
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Yeah its the 16mb one.
 
i have two 74gb 8mb cache in raid 0 and they are amazing. started of with one and that was fab then a year or two later i got the second and now they are in raid. never had any problems with them at all no data loss or woteva. gna get 2 (or possibly 3 depending on funds) new 150gb 16mb cache drives soon would recommend raptors over any other drives.

(just a big fan of western digital)
also thinking about raid'ing two 500gb re2 drives for storage (dont like to wait about)
 
rpstewart said:
Intel, everything I've seen suggests its RAID performance is far superior to the Gigabyte/JMicron one.
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Seconded - my integrated nForce Raid controler performs worse than any Intel, also i heard non-integrated Raid controllers perform better...
 
What would you guys suggest if I didn't want to go RAID? I have a 74gb Raptor 8mb cache drive at the mo but need more space. So I have 3 options:


1. Get another 74gb Raptor 8mb and have to RAID them (never done RAID before so bit unsure about this)

2. Get a 250GB Seagate 7200.10 with perpendicular thing (prefering this option as its very cheap and performance wise isn't far off a Raptor)

3. Say stuff it and get a 150gb Raptor 16mb cache

What would you lot do?
 
rpstewart said:
Option 2. It gives you good performance but also a second disk for important backups etc for when you need to reinstall or if the Raptor dies.
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Backups and extra space arn't an issue. I have a Seagate 320GB (old type) in there for downloads etc and I am also building a File Server with over 1TB of space. This drive will only be for the OS and games.
 
So far i cant tell the difference. Havent installed BF2 yet.

All i know is that i got a higher disk score on the pcpitstop website than my 250gb HDD (raptor scored 79 out of 100, sata scored around 50-60)
 
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