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Hard drive setup

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Sunni_Phono

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I was thinking about switching from using a single 250GB hard drive over to a smaller speedier drive as a main drive, and using my 250GB hitachi as a storage drive. Would you recommend this, and also what is a good speedy drive to use as a main drive? I was thinking about a 40GB or 80GB raptor. Is there any other choices? Thanks. If it matters, my 250GB drive is a Hitachi deskstar.
 
I haven't heard of a 40GB Raptor, though I've seen posts on here about Dell selling an 80GB Raptor. The normal sizes are 36GB and 74GB though, with the 74GB version being a good bit faster than the 36GB. Some of the latest and greatest 7200 rpm drives can beat up the 36GBa bit, so they've pretty much fallen out of favor.
Other options are getting a 10 or 15k rpm SCSI drive or just a faster 7200 rpm SATA disk, like a 16MB cache DiamondMax 10, or there's some WD drive that's up there with it. Sorry, forgot which. Of course, the fastest 7200rpm ATA drives are also big. They use platters >100GB & have at least 2 of them.
 
The 74 gig raptor is really going to be your most responsive consumer level drive you can get, though, some other ata/sata drives can beat it a touch on transfer rates, access times are still far in favor of the raptor. If you got truly into a need for speed mode you could upgrade to a nice scsi 320 controller and put a brand new 15k drive on there, but expect to spend much more money on that route.
 
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