WD7500AAKS Raid 0
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The Raptors have been out a while now, hard to be fair to judge against new tech SATA300 HDD's.
All I can add is in real life use everyday, booting PC, unraring files etc, they are faster than anything you have used ever single disk v single disk, and the SEEK today cant be beaten by other SATA HDD's
All I can add is in real life use everyday, booting PC, unraring files etc, they are faster than anything you have used ever single disk v single disk, and the SEEK today cant be beaten by other SATA HDD's
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Raptors are around 75MB/s and the 7500 65MB/s, so only about 20MB/s faster. Not really worth the price in that regard. But they do have lower latency which is what matters where loading times are concerned.
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yes i dont think theres going to be much in it speed wise, i guess its just down to access times. I had a raid 0 before and came home one day to find 1 of the drives was clicking and i lost everything, so now i keep a seperate drive not on raid for storage, and then backup a few things to disk / external harddrive. But I want 2 fast drives for raid 0 for gaming, with seperate non raid drives for storage. I was considering getting 2 raptor X drives and an AAKS for storage. I considered getting 3+ AAKS on raid5 but i dont like the idea of losing the space and i think it might be slower. Not sure what to do
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Raid doesn't do anything for games or boot times, if that helps you. It's all about access times. From what results I've gathered increasing the cpu clock speed does decrease loading times, 1 second per 100Mhz in coh for example.
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1063/index02.asp
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...px?i=2101&p=10
http://techreport.com/articles.x/9124/6
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Actually it does, its something only the end user can see for themselfs not in a review on a site with XYZ hardware, try it on your own.
As for games, it can help in many games but its been said not as much as years ago as games are coded better now but I know there is still sites will show you reduced loading times with Raid0.
I can again only add I noticed a big differnce in my whole wide use of PC with Raid0, I noticed no bad effects, even crashing PC during OC'ing did not mess up the Raid.
There are simply some who dont like Raid0 and cant seem to get out the past when HDD's were probably not as good as now and it was a high risk factor.
You should always have a backup if Single or Raid anyhow.
I dont see you ever getting a answer you will like on Raid0 or Raptors here, advise you read reviews and the peeps comments who actually bought the drives in the OCUK store.
The HDD is the slowest part of any modern PC, its a total bottleneck, I was given a good bit of advise about 2 years ago, the very clever person said instead of keep Overclocking CPU and GPU, add a 2nd HDD and Raid as you will actually feel/see the difference every day, he was correct.
As for games, it can help in many games but its been said not as much as years ago as games are coded better now but I know there is still sites will show you reduced loading times with Raid0.
I can again only add I noticed a big differnce in my whole wide use of PC with Raid0, I noticed no bad effects, even crashing PC during OC'ing did not mess up the Raid.
There are simply some who dont like Raid0 and cant seem to get out the past when HDD's were probably not as good as now and it was a high risk factor.
You should always have a backup if Single or Raid anyhow.
I dont see you ever getting a answer you will like on Raid0 or Raptors here, advise you read reviews and the peeps comments who actually bought the drives in the OCUK store.
The HDD is the slowest part of any modern PC, its a total bottleneck, I was given a good bit of advise about 2 years ago, the very clever person said instead of keep Overclocking CPU and GPU, add a 2nd HDD and Raid as you will actually feel/see the difference every day, he was correct.
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yes i agree with the hard drives being the slowest part of the pc, the hard drives on the servers at work is the main thing slowing the system down. I guess i'm greedy, i want high storage capacity and high speed without having to pay the earth for it.