poll: keep the raptor or dump it?

[AmongTheChosenX]

I have a 74GB raptor. someone on AAT wants it for $55 shipped.

Sell it, RAID it, or keep it single?

 

[knothead34]

hard to say without knowing the rest of your system. i dont see your system in your sig

 

[AmongTheChosenX]

hard to say without knowing the rest of your system. i dont see your system in your sig

its right in my sig buddy....

 

[Brahmzy]

Awesome in it's time (I had many of 'em) but it's way long in the toofs.

Get an intel or Vertex SSD n be done.

 

[dandragonrage]

Dump it.

 

[GotNoRice]

Awesome in it's time (I had many of 'em) but it's way long in the toofs.

It's not "way long in the tooth" considering it's access times are still half that of normal 7200rpm drives. If the application or game you are using is accessing lots of files frequently, it will still be much faster on a raptor-type drive than a normal 7200rpm drive. World of Warcraft is a popular example of one of these types of games.

Though I notice in your sig you already have a setup of 36g raptors in raid. I would imagine that should be sufficient for games as in my example without the need to setup another set of raptors in raid.

The question really is if you are ready to spend $300 on a good Intel SSD. That is a lot of money for only 80gigs, but it will blow away the raptors. If you aren't willing to drop that cash yet, then stick with the raptors. Either way, throwing in the towel and only using a 7200RPM drive is the option you should avoid. The raptor is still a fine drive.

 

[AmongTheChosenX]

i need to update my sig, i sold those 3 x 36gb raptors...

im running only a wd6400aaks drive right now. the raptor is sitting in my basement.

Im not buyin an SSD, nd thats final.
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[Monkey God]

youre asking if you should sell a drive youre not using?

 

[extide]

Sell all your raptors and get a ssd. I did (used to run a 4x160gb setup in raid 0)

Why don't you want an SSD? It's a whole new era of computing with (decent) ssd's.

 

[Knuckle-Head]

I use a 74gb raptor as my scratch disk in CS2, CloneDVD, Handbrake and ConvertX2DVD.

 

[AmongTheChosenX]

I use a 74gb raptor as my scratch disk in CS2, CloneDVD, Handbrake and ConvertX2DVD.

that sounds like a splendid idea. i think i'll keep it for that.