RaptorX 150GB Reliability

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Howdy,

Ok I am thinking of getting 2x Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache for my PC, and moving my Samsung SpinPoint SATA-II to my server, but before I do I want to ask people about the reliability of the RaptorX 150GB drives?

I'm slightly worried that their 10,000RPM speed would just make thje HDD die in a MUCH quicker time than a standard 7200RPM HDD? Do you feel this is the case? Or are they very reliable?

Also, do they need any extra cooling? Cos I would assume they would get much hotter than 7200RPM drives?

Any information you can give on these will be appreciated!

thanks

Steve M
 
These new 500GB jobbies... they available at OCuK yet? If so can you put a link in to them please so I can take a butchers?

Although, do they have a 200GB equiv, 500GB is WAYYYY too much for me... how can anyone fill 500GB up is beyond me?.. I barely fill up 50GB, and thats mostly Windows :) !

ta
 
keogh said:
I'm slightly worried that their 10,000RPM speed would just make thje HDD die in a MUCH quicker time than a standard 7200RPM HDD? Do you feel this is the case? Or are they very reliable?
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The spindle speed has nothing to do with reliability - if I was looking for an ultra reliable HDD I'd be going for a Seagate 15000rpm SCSI drive. It's all down to how their designed and built rather than what they do.

The Raptor X however does have a lower MTBF (mean time between failure) than the standard 150Gb Raptor due to the clear cover but it's still measured in tens of years.

keogh said:
These new 500GB jobbies... they available at OCuK yet? If so can you put a link in to them please so I can take a butchers?

Although, do they have a 200GB equiv, 500GB is WAYYYY too much for me... how can anyone fill 500GB up is beyond me?.. I barely fill up 50GB, and thats mostly Windows !
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The Seagate 7200.10 is available down to 200Gb at OCUK, the WD AAKS drives are slightly faster but OCUK only have the 500Gb one at the moment, there is a 320Gb though, no idea about any smaller.

500Gb is nothing by the way, that's about 12 months of photos for me and I'm an amateur!
 
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I want to get two identical drives, I can't afford to SCSI drives, they are EXPENSIVE!

Gotta be SATA-II really. I do want performance though, but obviously I don't want that to compromise the reliability of them, what use is a fast drive that implodes on ya!

The RaptorX's look the best performance for their price, but are they stable?

rpstewart said:
500Gb is nothing by the way, that's about 12 months of photos for me and I'm an amateur!
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Can't you delete sme of them :D How many HDD's have you got btw? Just outta curiosity?
 
keogh said:
These new 500GB jobbies... they available at OCuK yet? If so can you put a link in to them please so I can take a butchers?

Although, do they have a 200GB equiv, 500GB is WAYYYY too much for me... how can anyone fill 500GB up is beyond me?.. I barely fill up 50GB, and thats mostly Windows :) !

ta
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Games- now between 4GB-13GB EACH
Music- hundreds of gigabytes, flac
Movies- 4GB-6GB each
Game patches, 10GB in that folder
Software, drivers, 2GB
Photos, gigabytes (RAW and high rez jpeg)

500GB isn't a huge amount, I have 600GB in the NAS (full) another 500GB in the HTPC (half full)
 
squiffy said:
Movies- 4GB-6GB each
Photos, gigabytes (RAW and high rez jpeg)
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Movies and Photos huh... I wonder what sort of content they are ;)

tbh I format my windows pretty much every 6 months to keep it clean. I store all my important files on my 2nd HDD, and just have stuff I can remove on my 1st HDD (i.e. Windows). So when I want to format, all I have to do is format the first drive and when I reinstall Windows I have all my important guff on my 2nd drive, so its all good.

I never have more than 3 games on my HDD at a time, I have only bout 2GB of music max... and not many photos.

So I really don;t use much space... but I like to keep my PC very clean.. bit of a OCDer in that respect. If I feel its getting a bit messy, it gets formatted!
 
keogh said:
Can't you delete sme of them :D How many HDD's have you got btw? Just outta curiosity?
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That's *after* I've deleted the duffers. ;)

I'm currently running 2*320Gb Seagates in RAID0 for the OS, apps and general junk, the photos are on an 8*250Gb Hitachi T7K250 RAID5 array. I also have a number of 250Gb drives for offline backups and a huuuuge pile of DVD-Rs.
 
rpstewart said:
That's *after* I've deleted the duffers. ;)

I'm currently running 2*320Gb Seagates in RAID0 for the OS, apps and general junk, the photos are on an 8*250Gb Hitachi T7K250 RAID5 array. I also have a number of 250Gb drives for offline backups and a huuuuge pile of DVD-Rs.
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That means you have 10 HDDs in your machine... damn what PSU do you have running those badboys?

Thats a lot of HDDs I must admit! No wonder you have become an expert on HDDs... I've asked a few HDD questions on here before and you have given me very reliable information... why you not a mod of this forum?
 
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