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postmortemIA

postmortemIA

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Originally posted by: Barnacle Bill
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Interface speed is useless. SATA II is as much better as ATA/133 to ATA/100: not at all. I wish that there's single drive that reaches maximum throughput of 150MBps.
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The Interface Speed benchmark is only ONE of 17 HDD benchmarks available at Tom's Hardware.com; under 'Choose benchmark' you have the option to choose which one of 17 benchmarks your interested in.
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Yes, and on all others Raptors prevail over 7200rpm drives.
 
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Staples

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Originally posted by: deepinya
so does anyone have this coupon scanned?
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I bought a 74GB one a few days ago. The only coupon I could find was one that was good for the weekend of 12-14. So I don't think there are any 12% off coupons avaliable. But if there is one, I still have the 74GB drive in the shrink wrap and ready to return it for another one getting 12% off.
 
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blacklit

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Originally posted by: Staples
Originally posted by: deepinya
so does anyone have this coupon scanned?
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I bought a 74GB one a few days ago. The only coupon I could find was one that was good for the weekend of 12-14. So I don't think there are any 12% off coupons avaliable. But if there is one, I still have the 74GB drive in the shrink wrap and ready to return it for another one getting 12% off.
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[at least] half an hour of your time [and trouble] is worth ~$12?
 
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EvilRage

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Picked one up at my local store - there were only two on the shelf, and it was the only one in the immediate area that carried them. Not a bad deal, especially considering I had an absurd amount of store credit to spend.
 
postmortemIA

postmortemIA

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Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
can this drive be combined with a regular 150gb raptor for a RAID setup?
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Yeah, you can combine it with any drive and it will still work.

 
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chizow

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Yeah, these drives are definitely loud. In my old PC I wouldn't have noticed but GPU and CPU coolers have advanced so much since the days of 80mm high-RPM blow dryers. Its by far the loudest thing in my case now...my 8800 GTS and 120mm CPU fan give off a slight hum while this drive goes anywhere from constant "chirping" to full-blown garbage disposal-mode.

Still, a hot deal considering its the retail version with no rebate from a B&M. I picked up the OEM X for this much after rebate for my new system build. Drives are really fast (1 is faster than my old DM9+ RAID 0 Array on a 3Ware 7000-2) and I may pick this one up for a RAID 0 array or 2nd drive for storage/video. Would save me the hassle of porting over my old RAID 0 and free up a valuable PCI slot as well.
 
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mithrandir2001

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Originally posted by: Barnacle Bill
Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Yes, and on all others Raptors prevail over 7200rpm drives.
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Is that so Raptor fanboy? What about the Price/Performance Intex Benchmark? :thumbsdown:
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That's all things being equal, which they are not.

The build quality of the Raptor is clearly superior to your typical 7200rpm drive and it is backed by a 5 year warranty. The Raptor's reliability according to storagereview is in the 90th percentile or better.

The Raptor is essentially a SCSI/enterprise chassis with a SATA interface. You are paying for the robust build in addition to the performance. To some, like me, that's important.
 
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