Raptors

Baker · 19 Jan 2006 at 12:36

Everyone seems to rant on about them a lot - what's so special?

Do they increase overall computer performance or just data transfer times when moving files etc?

johnnyb · 19 Jan 2006 at 12:51

your normal drives spin at 7200rpm. Raptors run at 10000rpm.

So yes a lot quicker at everything.

DrEvil · 19 Jan 2006 at 14:28

One of mine is used for game binaries and data, it means I get on the battlefield a lot quicker than those without raptors!

LewisStuart · 19 Jan 2006 at 14:50

Two 36GB Raptors in RAID0 restarting xp here

Single 74GB Raptor restarting xp here (Drive was later RMA'd)

noxidjkram@hotm · 19 Jan 2006 at 18:53

Baker said:
Everyone seems to rant on about them a lot - what's so special?

Do they increase overall computer performance or just data transfer times when moving files etc?

To answer the original question:

Anything involving hard disk access will be faster. So intensive things like OS load, or game level load will show a marked difference.

This can appear as an overall speedup to the user, but isnt.

Other tasks such as intensive processing will not be affected.

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|-Chris-| · 19 Jan 2006 at 19:23

Baker said:
Everyone seems to rant on about them a lot - what's so special?

Do they increase overall computer performance or just data transfer times when moving files etc?

I'm hoping I understand what you mean here by "overall computer performance" isn't processing power but more general usability:

The thing I’ve noticed the most with my Raptor (74gb), is that my computer generally is more “Snappy” (that’s the best word I can think of to describe it at the moment) It's most noticeable when opening programs, files, mp3's, videos etc.

Raptors are good drives to store the operating system on.

noxidjkram@hotm · 19 Jan 2006 at 19:25

|-CC-| said:
Raptors are good drives to store the operating system on.

Yep! Sure are!

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smids · 19 Jan 2006 at 19:41

|-CC-| said:
I'm hoping I understand what you mean here by "overall computer performance" isn't processing power but more general usability:

The thing I’ve noticed the most with my Raptor (74bg), is that my computer generally is more “Snappy” (that’s the best word I can think of to describe it at the moment) It's most noticeable when opening programs, files, mp3's, videos etc.

Raptors are good drives to store the operating system on.

And with a 150GB one, I can store all high access things like OS, games, music, any vids I'm working on, programs, with a nice 250GB storage drive for any archived stuff

. Sorry, I'll stop blowing my own trumpet now.

noxidjkram@hotm · 19 Jan 2006 at 19:49

smids said:
Sorry, I'll stop blowing my own trumpet now.

Please don't... I just love this jealous feeling...

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