Raptor or other HD setup?

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Gambit2008

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I am making my PC and am unsure which hard drives set up to with. I will not be using any RAID setup.I was thinking one of the following:

1) WD Raptor 150gb - Vista, Programs, Games
500gb HD - All data, music, vidoes etc

2) 500gb HD - Vista, Programs, Games
500gb HD - All data, music, vidoes etc

3) WD Raptor 150gb - Vista, Programs, Games
1TB HD - All data, music, vidoes etc

The 500 gb drive i was thinking of was the Seagate Barracudda 7200.11 32mb.
The 1TB was either the Seagate Barracudda 7200.11 32mb or Samsung F1 Spinpoint.

Regarding the 1TB are they likely to have a higher failure rate then the 500gb nd which is better?

The other question is regarding the Raptor. Will there be a noticable difference in it against the 500gb Seagate between loading vista and especially games? I have checked out Toms hardware but do not know really what benchmarks matter most in real world use.

Thanks
 
Gambit2008 said:
Regarding the 1TB are they likely to have a higher failure rate then the 500gb nd which is better?
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No. volume doesnt matter to build quality.. if anything the raptor will have a higher failure rate because of the higher spin speed.. plus bigger palettes in the hdd make for faster speeds (though tthis depends on the hdd)

Gambit2008 said:
The other question is regarding the Raptor. Will there be a noticable difference in it against the 500gb Seagate between loading vista and especially games?
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short answer no.. latency is the raptors strong suit... raptor is a lot of extra money for a tiny drive with a slight boost in performance.. i personally think 2x7200rpm drive in a raid0 is faster (though plenty would disagree with me here)

and esp with game load times.. well i installed halflife 2 on a RAMDISK.. and while i did notice a boost to load times.. it wasnt overly significant... and thats RAM...

i'd say get the 1TB... for ur storage.. and just get a regular 160GB or 250GB for your OS. Unless you're the type to go for other gimmicky stuff like quad-sli, in which case get the raptor
 
thanks gaspah (lol i ain really into the gimmicky quad SLI :p ) and whatuusay1...i'll take the info on board...hopefully decide v.soon!
 
To put it simply, Raptors aren't worth the cost anymore. 1, they're limited by the SATA I standard. 2. They're still bloody expensive per gigabyte, 3. Modern 7200 RPM drives come very close to the performance of the Raptors. You can get 750 GB HDDs for the same price, which have performance that's pretty good.

Best bet is to go for the 2x 500's or perhaps the 1x 500 and 1x 1000. Both would give you much better bang for your buck than a Raptor would.
 
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