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Raptors - worth it?

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Munka

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now I know there have probably been many threads about this, but seriously, a raptor costs a fair bit of money for the ammount of space, but as a boot drive, is there really a noticable difference? between a good 7,200 RPM drive and a 10k one?
 
depends on what your expecting. they shave a few seconds off boot time.
Bf1942 lvls load faster. most games load faster. But dont expect like huge improvments. but then again i'm running to in raid 0
 
My brother and I have similar hardware and very close processor speed at stock clock. I have a 36GB Raptor and he has a 7200RPM WD 60GB drive. My PC loads XP Pro much faster than his loads XP Home. I don't mind restarting because it only takes 20 seconds or so to reboot. My old PC took at least a minute. For ~$100 for the 36GB model, I don't think you can go wrong.
 
Yes Raptors are fast, But they are not that fast that its worth it .
I was running 2 Seagate SATA 7200.7 drives in RAID 0 , I was plenty happy but wanted the Raptors.
The first ones I got lasted about 2 Hours, And the second set( in my system now) are starting to fail. I keep getting a "NO NTLDR' or "Incomplete RAID set" I have 2 nice 80 MM fans on these things. I have a PC power@cooling 510 Deluxe. I dont know what else they expect, I treat then like queens and the keep crapping out on me :)

Sometime this week, these are coming out and my Seagates are going back in. I will RMA these raptors and probably sell them.
There was honestly NO diference between the Seagates and these, except for these being a LOT louder.
 
From what I've heard, yes. But don't go run out spending a whole sh!tload of money on two of the 74GB ones.

Get a single 36GB raptor as your boot/windows/install drives, and raid 2 seagate 160GB SATAs for storage. That way, you get the performance, and not (so much of) the cost :)
 
i have one raptor it is fast but not that much noticeable in everyday applications. if your in raid0 with two of them then there's a difference. but if u get 2 sata's at 7200 u can get the same result.
 
Yeah, I have two raptors in raid0, I don't get that much better performance from normal sata 7200 drives. I vote "not worth it" for most uses.
 
All I know is that I have 4x36gb raptors in raid 0 and they smoke all the drives Ive ever owned. My burst speeds in hdtach are 105mb/sec, which is closer to 150mb/s than any other drives that I know of.
 
until it can prove to that 7/24 continuosly running with max load for 1 year without failing.. i will stick with my SCSI drives..

actually, some of my friends saying it rocks(when the drive didnt fail at all).. and some of them just hate it so much..
 
Sinister6 said:
until it can prove to that 7/24 continuosly running with max load for 1 year without failing.. i will stick with my SCSI drives..
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Thats exactly where I'm at. My 15k.3 works just fine for me. I'll let the rest of you folks out there be my testbed for the raptors. :D
 
I just bought a SCSI 15.3k Seagate Cheetah. This thing is like sliding on ice downhill with a wind tunnel strapped to your back.
 
wish i could afford a 15k cheetah lol...i cant even afford another raptor for raid0 :(
 
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