Will a raptor make much difference...?

james.miller said:
mate just put a piece of elastic around each drive length ways, tied to the elastic holding the drives in place - problem solved.
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I've thought of that before but it would mean taking out the hard drives and elastic in order to get the elastic band around them. I guess i could always use string or something similar.
 
Magic Man said:
Looking at building a new machine soon and currently have a Seagate 7200.10 down for the main program/storage side of things.

Don't fancy a raid 0 setup so for potential speed was wondering whether to go for a raptor (150 GB, 16MB cache) this time as a boot/games drive. In particular I'm thinking of Flight Simulator which has constant texture loads and some big files at that.

Would sought of difference would the raptor make?

Cheers!
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I just got my new drives all sorted a few days ago. Windows on the 74Gb Raptor and Games, etc on the Seagate 7200.10 drive. :) I must say that I have noticed a great increase in performance from my old IDE setup. :D

Loading work or transfering files is super quick! Very impressed with the speed. Noise wise, not bad at all, bit of noise when defraging but apart from that the case fans drown out anything else. So I would recommend the 74Gb 16mb cache Raptor quite happily, and I'm guessing the 150Gb will be just as good.

I think the only thing that could complement the drive within Windows even more is an dual-core CPU. That would make everything super-smooth imo.
 
As I'm thinking of doing the same as Magic Man, I thought I'd ask my question about the 150GB Raptors here:

For a non-RAID system, there's no need to stump up the extra for the Raptor X [AHFD], right?

I know that the ADFD [that's the non-blingy one ;)] has a slightly different firmware that makes it more suitable for RAID configurations, but does that mean it's any less effective - or even unsuitable - as a single drive?

Ta in advance as ever, folks :)

PS: Mark1 - nice simple solution. James - I hope everything's as well as can be expected, sir.
 
Stay away from the raptor X unless you really for some reason want a window in your hard disk. Costs more, worse warranty and worse MBTF why would anyone buy it.

You could always try some rubber grommets about 80p for 10 should dampen down any vibrations.

As for the raptor vs 7200 RPM disks yes they are faster not by much but a bit where they really shine is in random access times.

Gotta admit I do like mine though they where about the only upgrade I could get withoout rebuilding my entire system. :)
 
m3lv1n said:
Stay away from the raptor X unless you really for some reason want a window in your hard disk. Costs more, worse warranty and worse MBTF why would anyone buy it [...]
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Yes, I've just been reading about the difference in MTBFs, though I've been led to believe that they both have the same warranty.

Given that I've since found that the two variants are electronically similar, the choice is easier by about fifty quid :D
 
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