36.6gb Raptor Vs. 320gb sata 3.0

[Korialstrasza]

...in games and some production stuff, like photoshop and little 3ds max?

Given that I have plenty of space in a secondary HD, I want the primary hd to be faster.

36.6gb 10,000rpm SATA 1.5 raptor
vs.
320gb 7,200 SATA 3.0

Which wins?

Thanks dudes.

[drizzt81]

It depends on what model the raptor and what model the SATA drive is.

A WD360ADFD raptor may fare pretty well against one of the slower 320GB drives that exist. The WD360GD will lose out against most every 320GB HDD that has been released recently, if only for the abysmal price/ (space * performance) ratio.

The interface speed will have almost no impact on the real world performance. I would be willing to take 2:1 odds on $100 that a person would be unable to tell whether a drive was using SATA-3G or SATA-1.5G in a double blind study. This means that the person's answer to the question "is this the 3G drive?" will statistically be indifferentiable from random guessing.

p.s.: The size of your data set will also influence the outcome of the comparison. If you need more than 36 GB of space, the raptor will lose.

[xxshawn672xx]

Does anyone realize WD re-released the WD360GD with the new hardware and firmware.
So now either 36GB Raptor can keep up with the 74GB's.
The 16mb Cache on the ADFD's do help though.