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YoMoma

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How do these drives hold up against the speed of any of the 10,000 rpm drives out there, even though they operate at 7200 rpm.
I was told in another thread that their performance is just as good as any 10,000 rpm units. Is this true?
 
have never used a raptor but i upgraded an older hitachi 7200rpm to a wd black aals drive and it was a night and day difference in loading games and general use.
 
For great speed and tons of storage, the WD Black series rocks hard. But for serious random access and operating system drives, the Velociraptors still rule - and I'm not EVEN talking about SSD hardware so... we're talking about real hard drives. :) No 7200 will ever match the raw random access speed of a 10,000 rpm drive... it's just simple mechanics.
 
My 1 TB Black drive lasted 10 days. :( Died late Friday night/Saturday morning.
I put in another one on Saturday morning at 3am and it's been working great so far.
 
Joe Average said:
No 7200 will ever match the raw random access speed of a 10,000 rpm drive... it's just simple mechanics.
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What about a 7200 Black series vs my 1st Gen 10K RPM Cheetah? I feel that the random access on the new drive seems quicker than my 8+ year old cheetah.
 
Well geez, semantics and time travel aside, let's revise my statement:

No current generation 7200 will match any current generation 10K rpm drive for raw random access time.

How's that? :D That Cheetah was fast, and the access times technically are still superior to any 7200 on the market today, but as it can't actually transfer the data as fast, it loses out in the long run; it's hamstrung by throughput which offsets the random access time.
 
lol. :)
Those cheetahs were quite fast at the time, but they were sooooooo loud and very very hot, you could cook on them.
 
Ok, then... lets redirect my origional post for a bit and ask this question.
Which 10,000 rpm drive would work best with video editing of HD quality and gaming, but still be resonable priced?
This drive will need to have plenty of storage space, but the 10,000 rpm modles seem to be on the smaller size in that respect.
 
Well, if you are going to be editing videos, then the Vraptors just will not give you a lot of space to work with. You will also be working with large files, so the sequential access speed of the Blacks will be more in your favor.

Don
 
You don't need that much speed to edit HD videos. the 640 and 1TB black drives will be perfect for that.

Our main HD editor has only 3 drives in it, a 150gig Raptor for the OS and programs and 2 500gig WD drives.
It also has a Matrox RT.X2 Editing card which helps with real-time effects and titles.
 
Not sure if "10,000 rpm drive would work best with video editing of HD quality and gaming" and "still be resonable priced?" could be used in the same sentence.$200 for a 300 GB VR vs $110 for a 1TB Black off of NewEgg right now is $0.67/GB for the VR vs $0.11/GB for the Black. VR's are fast, and while Black's are not as fast, they definately aren't slow either. + more space + better price - a bit less speed = win for Black.
 
For any kind of work where you're dealing with large files, a pair of RAID 0'ed WDAALS6401s are pretty much the ideal right now, at least so long as you aren't willing to spend $1000+ on SSDs or multiple Velociraptors to get the same space and more speed.
 
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