Raptor for New Hard Drive?

[Cram3601]

Hi.

I made a post related to his question from another account.

I have a VelocityMicro ProMagix PC with 2 WD 250 mg hard drives. I've received valuable responses from HardForum re: new hard drives. I want to make the PC faster.

Would a Raptor Hard Drive be appropriate? (I know that I'd have to back up all information to an external hard drive).

Thanks again.

 

[engiNURD]

No. Despite being the fastest mechanical drives around, Raptors and VRaptors are a waste of money, IMO. If you want speed and like to blow money away, get an SSD. If you'd rather get the most bang for your buck, go with the F3 and Green I suggested in your other thread.

What makes raptors so fast? seek times. Why are they not worth the money? because SSDs blow them away in seek times as well as small random write speeds; and other 7200RPM drives have higher sequential speeds, though sequential speeds don't matter much to the avg desktop user -- small random write speeds and faster seek times translate to much more noticeable performance improvements.
http://www.alphaq.org/enginurd/hdd/ocz_vertex.html

 

[Cram3601]

You are a diamond, enginurd (but don't tell my wife I said this.

I'm not sure what I'll do about a new hard drive yet. I see that the Solid State Hard Drives come in 80 and 160 Gb sizes, and yes, they're very expensive (at least for me). Would you say that 80 Gb would be enough for the applications? (I know haven't given full information re: the apps we run).

Thanks again.

 

[-=Antimatter=-]

You are a diamond, enginurd (but don't tell my wife I said this.

I'm not sure what I'll do about a new hard drive yet. I see that the Solid State Hard Drives come in 80 and 160 Gb sizes, and yes, they're very expensive (at least for me). Would you say that 80 Gb would be enough for the applications? (I know haven't given full information re: the apps we run).

Thanks again.

How much space do you use on your hard drive now? Use that as a guideline. If SSDs are too expensive then go with a fast 7200RPM drive and you'll have a lot more space.