I think my old drive isnt cutting it.

[Vlad335]

I have an older Maxtor 40gig IDE drive that I think is slowing down my present A64 upgrade. I did a speed test through WinXP and here are the results.

Theoretical Limit 133.3
Burst Speed 88.8
Sustained Speed 41.4

Doesnt sound good. Thinking hard about a Raptor upgrade. What do you people think?

 

[unhappy_mage]

That's not bad for that era of drive. A raptor will be much faster, though.

 

[ziscwg]

Hey, I have one of those drives also. I just use mine for backups though.
The Raptor is a good upgrade choice. I just put 2 (RAID0) in a buddy's system for video editing. A tad louder, but faster.....

 

[Renegade87]

A raptor will be much faster, though.

These guys are dead on. I have a single Raptor (WD740GD) in my new Athlon64 rig. The speed difference over the old WD 27GB ATA66 drive I was using before is unbelievable.

Check out THIS over at Storage Review. I'll sum it up for you: "Overall, for non-server use, Western Digital's Raptor WD740GD is the fastest single hard disk one can buy regardless of spindle speed, interface, or price."