Thinking Of Getting A Raptor

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Hello,

i have a budget of around £120 and was thinking of buying a WD 74gb Rator.
Would this be the best choice, instead of getting 2 cheaper drives and raiding them? or than buying a larger capacity SATA II drive?

The hardrive will be mainly used for the OS and Gaming, as i have a seperate 200gb maxtor that will hold my files and music ect

1 thing i have noticed is that the raptor isnt sata II, does this make a differance?

Thanks
 
SATAII is supposed to have twice as much throughput over SATA. To be perfectly honest, i never saw the appeal of the Raptors. I just stick with a SATA 'Cuda boot drive (160Gb) and storage drives to keep everything else, be it SATA or an old ATA drive. I also have found that installing a OS drive and having a separate drive for programs is too tiresome, and there will always be irritating progams that insist they be installed on C:/.

The Raptor is also too small. The new 150Gb Raptor is definitely an eye-catcher for the non-budget system, however.

I personally would stick with RAID0 or a large SATAII drive.
 
therefused:

A 74GB Raptor is ideal to have XP installed on and also to use for gaming, and keep your 200GB for your files and music etc,. You will really benefit from it as games and XP will run better due to the 10,000rpm and fast seek times.

I have 2 Raptors, had them in RAID0 for 1 year, have them as separate HDDs now, but either way they are still ahead of the 7,200 SATA I & IIs! ;)
 
Agree with jbloggs.

I use seagate 7200.9's as boot and data drives on both systems in my sig, and a raptor on each for my game binary/data drive - I am one of, if not the first on the Battefield(2)! :D
 
i am also thinkign about looking into a raptor for an OS + games drive, but one thing that worries me is noise, i have everything water cooled and have the OS on a Samsung Spinpoint at the mo so nice and quiet...

..so how loud are these things on seek and read etc. Also is there a "whine" or a "click" or both

thanks

nana
 
bananaman said:
i am also thinkign about looking into a raptor for an OS + games drive, but one thing that worries me is noise, i have everything water cooled and have the OS on a Samsung Spinpoint at the mo so nice and quiet...

..so how loud are these things on seek and read etc. Also is there a "whine" or a "click" or both

thanks

nana
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I just got a raptor to replace a samsung as boot drive, I was also concerned re the noise, there is no whine etc.. but seeking/writing is quite clunky, but nowhere near as bad as I anticipated.
 
Or...

I got lucky on the MM and got 2xCheetah (15k scsi) + 320 Card + cable for £90

Not as much storage as the Raptor, but boy are they quick (and the added advantage of having 2 seperate drives to seperate win / games!)

(Then when you get more, you can start building the raid!)

Why get:
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When you could have:
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jbloggs said:
I have 2 Raptors, had them in RAID0 for 1 year, have them as separate HDDs now, but either way they are still ahead of the 7,200 SATA I & IIs! ;)
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I don't agree with that statement, based on personal experience I think Raptors are more bark than bite!

You will be hard pressed to tell the difference between a Raptor and a Modern HDD in actual use, and if you put 2x normal disks in Raid-0 they will eat a single Raptor.

If you got a lot of spare cash and want a server class disk then get the Raptor, but if you want 3-4 times the amount of storage for the same price grab one of the new SATA-II drives, there very fast!!
 
Tis true - for general use you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a decent 16mb cache Sata II and the raptor - especially since you could easily set up a raid for the same price - But that's not nearly as cool :p
 
i'm selling my raptor. Just put a samsung 250gig drive in instead. Can't really tell the difference in speed, but i get almost 180 gigs extra for less than i'll be able to sell my 2nd hand raptor!

I think the raptors are slightly over hyped tbh.
 
If you cannot tell the difference between a 10k Raptor and a decent 7.2k Hd then it just shows how bloated your system setup must be!?!?

Windows benefits greatly from the fast spindle speed and low Random access as it's constantly accessing lots of little files. A RAID setup will have better bandwidth than a raptor but for the OS drive a raptor is better due to the lower random access.

If you want super speed OS setup then a Maxtor Atlas II 15k (<3ms) and a decent U320 SCSI card is what you want.
 
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