SATA2 vs Raptors?

Monstermunch · 19 Feb 2006 at 17:48

Will be building soon and need some more advice. I have about £130ish allocated for hdd's and need to know which of the following is the best option:

1x SATA2 250gb
1x WD Raptor 36gb

or

2x SATA2 160gb on Raid

I have recently read some info on the Hitachi deskstars SATA2 kicking ass agaist a single raptors performance.

Any experience/comments?

BoomAM · 20 Feb 2006 at 02:32

I'd personally pick the 250Gb drive.
The Raptors are fast, but arnt really needed. The 250Gb Hitachis are plenty fast enough for most situations. I have 2 of them in my system and it does most HDD related operations very quickly.

ajgoodfellow · 21 Feb 2006 at 00:53

Go for the Raptor option - I upgraded to the 74GB version from a 120GB 7200rpm 8MB cache drive and I noticed a large boost in performance

Go for the 74GB version though as it's faster than the 36GB drive

BoomAM · 21 Feb 2006 at 01:02

Ive just realised.
Monstermunch, are you saying that you can get 1xRaptor AND 1x250Gb drive? and that the second choice is 2x160Gb drives?
If so, get the Raptor+250Gb drive.

jhmaeng · 21 Feb 2006 at 23:40

If you can, definitely get the 74GB over 36GB (even if it means a smaller second drive) - the 74GB version is quite an improvement in many ways over the 36GB.

Same goes for 150GB over 74GB, too.

ryansm · 22 Feb 2006 at 09:18

I have a Hitatchi 250gb Sata drive and a 74 GB Raptor - and the Raptor is way faster!