Raptor or 7200?

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Ok..I know this has to have been asked a million times before, I searched and didn't find a direct answer.

I am in the middle of upgrading my PC, I have a P5Q Pro, vista 64 on the way and this coming weekend I am ordering a 4GB ram kit and another HDD (WD6400AAKS). The plan was to use the new drive as a replacement for the 7200.10 drive I have, most likely getting two more down the road and setting up a RAID 5...But I started thinking about picking up something like the WD1500ADFD and using it as a pure OS drive, move the old drive to storage duty and pick up a 640 down the road.

I am looking to get a more snappy setup, I do video editing on the side for some racing buddies and allot of photoshoping...That's about it as far as "demanding" tasks.

Are the Raptors as good as I hear? Are they worth the extra cost (exactly twice that of the 640) and the loss of 490GB for a user such as my self, or will the 640 be a big enough jump from the 7200.10 speed wise?

What I am use to:

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Do you have a backup solution? if not you should especially if you are going to do raid

I would get wd6400aaks over 150gb raptors right now...access time is a lil lower on the raptors but not by much, plus that wont really help you with video editing. I have two wd6400aaks and I love them they are almost as fast as velociraptors. Plus with the 640's you can get more of them to raid for the same amt of money and enjoy higher throughputs..that will help with your video encoding...and you get all that space.
 
nitrobass24 said:
Do you have a backup solution? if not you should especially if you are going to do raid

I would get wd6400aaks over 150gb raptors right now...access time is a lil lower on the raptors but not by much, plus that wont really help you with video editing. I have two wd6400aaks and I love them they are almost as fast as velociraptors. Plus with the 640's you can get more of them to raid for the same amt of money and enjoy higher throughputs..that will help with your video encoding...and you get all that space.
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No back up solution for the whole set up. I would like to mess around with raid because...Well, I like to tinker, but that's not a set thing yet. Right now it's about speed, as the drive I have just feels so slow, and I am betting that feeling is only going to get worse as the hardware upgrades go on. The extra space wouldn't hurt either. :D
 
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