Need: Faster hard drive

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Here is the deal. I have a brand new(last year) seagate 7200.10 320gb hard drive in my gaming rig. Since day 1, the performance has sucked. Yes, I did remove the jumper.

Doing the most basic of tasks is slow, and all I hear is the hard drive crashing.

My motherboard does have onboard raid, and sata II. I'd like to replace the drive with something better. I've been googling and reading reviews, but unless you have deep pockets for the new raptor, or, scsi, speed isn't important:rolleyes:

Note: I do not need to use the drive for storage

So with that being said, what other drives should I check out? I was thinking of trying a single 250gb seagate 7200.11. but they seem to break a lot:confused:
 
A single platter 320GB WD or a two platter WD 640GB seem to be very popular for their low prices and great performance due to the simple platter designs with 320GB per platter, allowing for greater areal density and therefore less seek times and faster overall performance.

Plus, they run pretty cool and WD has a five-year warranty. :)
 
iBP_James said:
A single platter 320GB WD or a two platter WD 640GB seem to be very popular for their low prices and great performance due to the simple platter designs with 320GB per platter, allowing for greater areal density and therefore less seek times and faster overall performance.

Plus, they run pretty cool and WD has a five-year warranty. :)
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First off WD has a 3 year warranty

WD6400AAKS is what you want although it is two platters it is faster and will perform better than a single platter 320GB plus its only $90
 
Interesting. I have a 320 gig 7200.10 drive and it's a pretty peppy drive and noticeably faster than the 7200.10 250 gig it replaced.

I also have two 500 gig 7200.11 drives and they are faster than the 320 gig 7200.10. Unfortunately, I don't think I would recommend them. I have one dead one and I think the other one is dying as well and I've only had them since March or so.

To replace the dead one I snagged a WD 640AAKS and it's a damn quick drive as well. I haven't done any exhaustive testing with it but it seems to be at least as fast as the 7200.11 drives. I wouldn't hesitate getting another one or recommending them at this time.

The only thing I don't like about the WD640AAKS drive is that it runs a few degrees hotter than my 7200.11 drives. The 7200.10 320 gig drive is the hottest, the WD640AAKS is a few degrees cooler and the 7200.11 500 gig drives are a few degrees cooler than the WD. However, none of them run truly hot so I don't see it as a problem as long as you have at least some airflow on them.

 
SmokeRngs said:
Interesting. I have a 320 gig 7200.10 drive and it's a pretty peppy drive and noticeably faster than the 7200.10 250 gig it replaced.

I also have two 500 gig 7200.11 drives and they are faster than the 320 gig 7200.10. Unfortunately, I don't think I would recommend them. I have one dead one and I think the other one is dying as well and I've only had them since March or so.

To replace the dead one I snagged a WD 640AAKS and it's a damn quick drive as well. I haven't done any exhaustive testing with it but it seems to be at least as fast as the 7200.11 drives. I wouldn't hesitate getting another one or recommending them at this time.

The only thing I don't like about the WD640AAKS drive is that it runs a few degrees hotter than my 7200.11 drives. The 7200.10 320 gig drive is the hottest, the WD640AAKS is a few degrees cooler and the 7200.11 500 gig drives are a few degrees cooler than the WD. However, none of them run truly hot so I don't see it as a problem as long as you have at least some airflow on them.

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The 7200.10 I have is a refurb. The prior drive that failed was much quicker.

The 640 is a turn off because I really do not need the storage, but the price is pretty fair.
 
sc0tty8 said:
The 7200.10 I have is a refurb. The prior drive that failed was much quicker.

The 640 is a turn off because I really do not need the storage, but the price is pretty fair.
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The 640 is the next fastest thing to a raptor
 
So where is a good place to get the 640 for cheap(er) as a retail drive?

(I want the extra packaging so I know the drive is packaged properly)
 
sc0tty8 said:
So where is a good place to get the 640 for cheap(er) as a retail drive?

(I want the extra packaging so I know the drive is packaged properly)
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I wouldn't mess with a retail drive. I haven't checked in a while but a lot of times retail drives have a shorter warranty than OEM drives. You might want to check out zipzoomfly for your hard drive purchases. I haven't actually purchased a drive from them but a lot of people say they do a hell of a job packing their hard drives for shipping.

 
The retail drives come with a 3yr warranty, AKAIK, WD offers 5 on the raptor. I think the OEM drives are also 3 yr.
 
I have 4 of the WD6400AAKS in my file server and they seem great, they are pretty much silent unless you put your head right near them... I thought I forgot to plug the power into the drives when i first turned it on because they were so quite. They also run pretty cool which is good. For $90 you can't really go wrong
 
The 640 would have lower access time....the 2x320 would probably have higher throuput

Just depends on what you are looking for
 
What is motherboard?
You might post some HDD benchmark scores.
.... just how slow IS your drive?
..... have other possibilities been ruled out?
 
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