Raptors

DaveBennett · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:13

Hey,

Ive been thinking about getting a new hard drive cause im running out of space.

I have seen people talk about raptors, but how good are they?

Whats better about them than normal HDs etc?

I just want some thoughts and facts about them please.

Thanks,

Dave

John.Goold · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:31

Dave,

Although never owned a Raptor myself (I'm a 7200 guy!) I do believe they run quicker at 10,000rpm ergo have super fast access times.

When I look at system spec ups with Raptors, people tend to have one or two Raptors purely for boot and install, and then a handful of 7200's for mass storage.

Hope this helps somewhat,
John

IceShock · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:41

raptors are best at seek times to load things but just average for write speeds (i think)

Steves_pc · 22 Dec 2006 at 02:02

As above the seek times are faster and the average tranfer rate is a bit faster.
Personally speaking i'd say get a 320GiB Seagate as theyre probably the fastest of the 7200 drives and have transfer rates approaching that of the raptors, and are a vitually silent whereas the raptors you will hear.

Like quite a few folk here i have both the above

The Raptors are great and so are the Seagates, just ones somewhat cheaper and bigger than the other.

Participant · 22 Dec 2006 at 08:17

They are so much more expensive than the 7200rpm drives it's only worth it if you're a real power user. However Raptors especially in RAID 0 are awesome at loading things - you pays your money you takes your choice.

Terrier_Jimlad · 23 Dec 2006 at 19:28

my raptor is very noisey ... i only really notice the extra speed when unrarring/zipping and moving files ... better spending money on a bigger seagate