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WD Raptor Questions

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akademik_7

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Why do they not produce bigger WD raptor harddrives? SCSI is far 2 expensive. 76gb Drive is getting kinda old :) Atleast make one in the 100's. Any know anything about the future of the Raptors?
 
This would probably do better in disk storage.

I'd presume that the smaller size it due to its incredibly high speed, and some problem with that and more platters or overall size, etc. IMO unless your dropping 5 grand and goin for hardcore benches or some professional work... it's really not needed. But if you want the very best and have cash to burn, go for it
 
Well I run 2 76gb in raid 0. Have 99.2GB left. Dont know how but Im going to start deleting stuff. I like having a ton of space left over :)
 
the new Raptors are coming, but I haven't heard any details
and the current ones are 74GB, not 76GB

if you need room for storage, just get a larger, slower drive and keep one of the Raptors for your OS and apps
 
I'm still using a 36 GB Raptor as my C drive for OS and apps, and then a 120 GB Seagate drive for storage. Everyone's space requirements are different, but a 74 GB Raptor should fit everyone's needs for the OS and apps.

Back when I thought RAID0 had a point, I had about 74 GB of storage space, and that was plenty more than enough. RAID0 has been debunked and proven worthless, so I put my second Raptor in another computer. Moving data off to a second, larger drive is much safer, and you lose nothing in performance.
 
By going the route Dines was talking about, you also create yourself a little backup. My setup is the OS and games on the Raptor (to get faster game loading), and everything else on other disks. I'm eventually gonna pitch the two 80 gigs and 160 gig and get a 400 or 500 gig... But, I am able to make image backups of the raptor and tuck them away on my other drive, in case of some sort of failure or corruption.
 
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