Raptors?

10,000RPM makes the seek time fantastic, quicker than any other drive I believe.

£/GB ratio is atrocious though, and the sizes are comparitively small.

I wouldn't swap mine for any other HDD though! :cool:
 
Tute has pretty much summed it up however note that while Raptors have a good seek time they aren't even as quick as some of the newer 7200rpm drives for sustained transfer speeds.

If I had an unlimited budget then I'd probably get one (or several) but there are plenty of things I'd spend money on first in preference. :)
 
That untrue as usual, there aint any 7200RPM HDD right now that can do same Sustained as a Raptor 16MB HDD, they are very near it and will beat it soon, the review sites like THG that make a topic with 95MB/Sec are the Max Read Speeds not Average Sustained Read Speeds (only one that really matters).

To the OP, you will never get a real answer on either side for Raptors here, read the reviews and comments from peeps who bought them in the OCUK Store's comments sections.
 
Interesting thread, as been wondering whether it would be worth moving to a pair of Raptors in RAID 0.

Pair of Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB SATA 2 on my XBX2, and according to HD Tach's benchmark Im hitting 360+ MB/s on burst and 122MB/s average sustained read. Access time is around 9ms.

anyone one have a Raptor raid and can compare some figures?
 
You got to remember, the 16MB Raptors are well over 1 year old tech now, 7200RPM HDD's are approaching same speeds but will never SEEK as fast.

Also your speeds seem kinda fast, Raid0 gives about average of 60% gain not 100% and the SEEK should be lot higher for your HDD's in Raid.

I had Raptor X raid but not on new rig yet, so not sure how fast on a PCI-E bus.
 
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Personally, I wouldn't waste my money on a Raptor.

I'd sooner buy two 250gb Hitachi drives, and put them together in RAID 0, then pay over the odds for a measily 150gb drive.
 
Raptors are a waste of money.

One of my mates just got one and i was actually suprised at the difference compared to my standard 7200 RPM drives. The difference was hardly noticable to be honest.

He paid £100 for his and i still even think it was a waste of money.
 
helmutcheese said:
That untrue as usual, there aint any 7200RPM HDD right now that can do same Sustained as a Raptor 16MB HDD, they are very near it and will beat it soon, the review sites like THG that make a topic with 95MB/Sec are the Max Read Speeds not Average Sustained Read Speeds (only one that really matters).
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Simply passing on information here that was taken from a post by rpstewart in a similar thread and I can't say I've ever noticed him to be wrong on a hard drive related matter. If it is wrong then apologies for passing on the misinformation.
 
helmutcheese said:
That untrue as usual, there aint any 7200RPM HDD right now that can do same Sustained as a Raptor 16MB HDD, they are very near it and will beat it soon, the review sites like THG that make a topic with 95MB/Sec are the Max Read Speeds not Average Sustained Read Speeds (only one that really matters).
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You might want to reconsider that.

This is definitely quicker than this.
 
I was not making a big deal of it, but I have never seen them beat yet, that 1 bench does look good but funny there seems to be no others.

As I said about above about "nearly approaching the same speed but not for SEEK", that may have happened recently as I dont read up on every review as it dont really interest me as HDD's are kind of static TECH for now.
The Raptor 16MB's are about 18months old now, they will win back crown next round.

But at least a photo to prove is better this time so thanks for prrof which others dont give :)

P.S, WD claim 84MB/Sec on site, not sure as it can vary on different controlers, I get 78.4MB/Sec AVG
 
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Raptors rock and are not about having oodles of storage.

I have a 150 gig as my windows disk and important data are on 1TB seperate drives.
 
cheers, heres the HC TACH result:

OS: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7958/untitled6id0.jpg
Storage: http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1032/untitled2sz3.jpg
Backup: http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4858/untitled4aq8.jpg

makes me feel a little better
I can now see the point of having your games installed on a different HDD
interestinh how spiky the samsungs are compaired to the smoother maxtor. hmm
i did mention in another post i was gonna raid these samsung drives, right before realising my mobo doesnt support raid =)
 
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Edinho said:
Personally think they are the most overhyped piece of hardware you can buy.
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I Personally think that buying my 150GB raptor is one of the best upgrades i did to my PC.....(

As the Harddrive/s are one of the slowest components in a PC...
 
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At the time they launched I paid £237 from here for 1 Raptor X (worth extra to not get ugly white sticker on nice black HDD's :p).

Of all the hardware parts I have upgraded over the years inc top CPU's and GPU's I have never felt such a gain or been so 100% happy with a purchase, 1 month later I bought another to run Raid0 although bottlenecked to 108MB/Sec on that Mobo's PCI Bus (133MB/Sec shared).

Time has past (18moths or so) and other drives are now near/as fast (no shame in that, things advance) but not for Seeks but prices are lower on all HDD's now inc Raptors.
 
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