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A question about SATA

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I have in my system now, 2 Seagate 120 GIG/7200 RPM/8 MB SATA drives in RAID 0. I mostly play games and just surf the net with this machine.
I am looking at getting 2 Raptor 36 GIG/10000/RPM SATA drives.
Do you think it is worth it? I can get em at Newegg for around 250.00 or so,and I guess could sell my drives for a few bucks to offset the cost. I guess I just dont know if all the work with redoing my system would be worth it.

Any Comments/Experience ?
 
The loss of space isn't going to make up for a tiny difference in speed. If you had a single IDE drive, I'd say definitely.
 
yea stick to your current setup, its a fraction of the price and its tons more space.. i hope you're using the trusty 16kb stripe size too..

Also, if the seagates are 7200.7's keep them no matter what. Once NCQ-enabled sata/raid controllers come out, that should definitely make an impact on performance..

Seagate is claiming a single 7200.7 drive w/ NCQ running is on par with a single raptor... so surely a raid0 setup like that would be bye bye scsi :D

Just gotta wait for the spec to be finalized and new chipsets / chipset updates to get released, as well as Firmware for the drives..

NCQ is also going to be a native SATAII technology, but its being intro'd this year [hopefully] on SATA I
 
Unless you've got $500 just burning a hole in your pocket, stick with what you've got. Your going from 240GB of speedy storage to 72GB of slightly faster storage, for half a grand.

Syztem: I agree about the 7200.7's. They've got native SATA controllers themselves, once mobo controllers get caught up they should be a quick drive. I'm impressed with my 7200.7's so far over my old 'Cudas, much faster :)
 
That wasn't what he ment. he ment 1x36GB for ~120 or something. Total of 240 for both.

Those 36GB drives are loud as they don't have FBD motors. If that doesn't bother you, then go for it. You be impressed with the speed.

I have 1, 74 GB Raptor in my system now. Pretty quiet drive for what it is.
 
Yeah It would be about 250 for both. Im not really concerned about the storage issue,cause I would just put my OS and games on these and all my other "crap" an a seperate IDE drive.
I have the money, but I wouldnt say it was "burning a hole in my pocket"LOL If its not gonna make a difference than I wont spend it. Also I figure my 120;s are worth a few bucks, they are only 6 months old, so whatever I get for them, would offset the cost of the Raptors. Realisticaly I might be able to do this for $75-100 bucks. Im not sure if they are the 7200.7 drives and dont have any idea what " NCQ' Is but ill look into it tonite.
Thanks for the replys :)
 
Increased heat, noises and expenditure for a tad more if any useable performance increase is a bad investment.

The 36 gigers firmware is tuned for enterprise environments and not the desktop. IF you go raptor spend your 250-300 on the 74
giger. The 74 giger has been optimized for the desktop in response to the somewhat unexpected embracing of the 36 giger buy the retail marked and also has command Q capability . Then buy the second one later once the prices come down.
 
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