These latest Raptors are fast.

busterboy · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:14

Jeebus I remember when read & write was under 10 Mb/sec when I started..

Now look at the latest 160Gb Raptor as a single drive.. :eek:

Mikey1280 · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:19

You got an HDtach graph?

busterboy · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:21

Yep somewhere, Let me dig it out..

busterboy · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:27

Here we go, Is this any good.. :confused:

Mikey1280 · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:33

I'm not sure, I've only used the newer version which shows different results.

busterboy · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:46

Mikey1280 said:
I'm not sure, I've only used the newer version which shows different results.

Mmmmm. New version just downloaded it..

Messiah Khan · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:04

Thats not a hdtach of the raptor surely? If so, then there is something wrong, as that random access and average read are terrible.

jbloggs · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:17

messiah khan wrote:

there is something wrong

Certainly is :confused:

You should be getting in the region of 78MB/s for an Average read in HDTach v3.0.1.0, and around/below 8ms for Random access.

Messiah Khan · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:22

Just looked at the name.. its a 120gb Seagate Barracuda

doc · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:41

Put 4 of them in RAID 0 on an Areca 1220..... simply stunning.....

hybrid · 12 Jul 2006 at 23:08

whats the best type of environment to use a raptor in? Video Editing side of things? Or low-end server style?

busterboy · 13 Jul 2006 at 05:44

messiah khan said:
Just looked at the name.. its a 120gb Seagate Barracuda

Now I'm embarrassed.. You are correct..

Try again..

Mikey1280 · 13 Jul 2006 at 08:39

There we are, much better

Messiah Khan · 13 Jul 2006 at 08:57

Thats more like it.

jbloggs · 13 Jul 2006 at 11:01

busterboy:

Spot on!

Misiowiec · 16 Jul 2006 at 17:00

Some amazing results, I'd get a Raptor strait away if it wasn't so expensive.

Anyone know if they make a lot of noise? E.g. would they go in an otherwise quiet system, or do they click and whirr?

brightside_ · 16 Jul 2006 at 17:10

only under heavy use do they make a bit of noise, even so i don;t think they make that much more than a normal HDD. I have a 6month old 74GB one, so i don't know ifthey've changed recently.

Humate · 16 Jul 2006 at 17:19

do they make an difference that is worth the extra cash though?

ByteJuggler · 16 Jul 2006 at 17:41

Humate said:
do they make an difference that is worth the extra cash though?

That depends entirely on what you do with them/your point of view. For me, yes they're worth it. For many other people they may not be. If you often work with large numbers of small files that need to be accessed quickly, or very large files that need to be quickly scanned/read etc, then a disk like the Raptor with a low average access time and a high sustained transfer rate can make a very noticeable difference/improve your quality of life.

noxidjkram@hotm · 16 Jul 2006 at 21:16

Raptor 150s are noisy when searching - otherwise quiet.

Thats a RAID pair of 150s ^^.

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