WD 36Gb Raptor desirability??

gorebrush · 15 Aug 2006 at 15:27

Are these drives still worth having?

I was considering flogging these and getting a pair of 80Gb SATA2 disks, but not sure how they would stack up performance wise.

I have 2 of them running RAID-0 running my OS, and I would replace those with the 2 x 80's also in RAID (but going from SATA1-2 obviously)

What do you think chaps?

Greenlizard0 · 15 Aug 2006 at 16:07

I think that the older 36gig models were awful iirc, though the newer ones were ok.

I think that a lot of people here have 2 75gig raptors if in a raid setup.

t31os · 15 Aug 2006 at 16:51

My buddie has 2 of those raptors.

He's just upgraded to conroe, and the performance is different now.

You can see his results here.

gorebrush · 16 Aug 2006 at 17:25

Hmm might have to do some tests of my own...

jhmaeng · 16 Aug 2006 at 21:24

The new -ADFD versions (SATAII, 16MB, NCQ) are definitely worthwhile, but I'm not so sure about the -GD version. As far as I remember, the WD360GD isn't that much faster than the latest 7.2krpm drives, whereas the WD360ADFD is the same speed as the WD1500ADFD, the fastest drive currently available for desktop environments.

gorebrush · 17 Aug 2006 at 08:45

jhmaeng said:
The new -ADFD versions (SATAII, 16MB, NCQ) are definitely worthwhile, but I'm not so sure about the -GD version. As far as I remember, the WD360GD isn't that much faster than the latest 7.2krpm drives, whereas the WD360ADFD is the same speed as the WD1500ADFD, the fastest drive currently available for desktop environments.

Mine will be the -GD... Better flog them then

easyrider · 17 Aug 2006 at 14:37

The 36 gtig raptors were slower and noisier than the 74 GB counterparts.

The 150 gig raptor is in a league of its own.

jhmaeng · 17 Aug 2006 at 15:19

easyrider said:
The 36 gtig raptors were slower and noisier than the 74 GB counterparts.

The 150 gig raptor is in a league of its own.

True for WD360GD and WD740GD, but by all accounts, the newer WD360ADFD and WD740ADFD are exactly the same speed as (and slightly faster in some other tests than) the WD1500ADFD.

maddness · 17 Aug 2006 at 23:27

so how does the 74gb 16mb'ers perform?

Cheekykid · 20 Aug 2006 at 13:03

<maddness> said:
so how does the 74gb 16mb'ers perform?

I'll tell you soon.

Cheekykid · 20 Aug 2006 at 13:09

t31os said:
My buddie has 2 of those raptors.

He's just upgraded to conroe, and the performance is different now.

You can see his results here.

Hm, the speed that he gets is day and night difference with the one posted in a different thread. Do Conroe make so much difference?