74GB Raptor Raid 0 performance?

[jdogg707]

I currently have a single 74GB Raptor and was wondering if it would be worth it to grab another and put them in Raid 0, especially since Buy.com has such a good prive on them. Does anyone has experience with them, especially versus a single 74GB drive. Or would it be more worthwhile to get a pair of 36GB drives now that they have fluid bearings and put them in Raid 0? I do a lot of disk heavy work like MPEG editing, uncompressed photo editing, etc.

So my options:

2 x 36GB Raptors: $230.00 Shipped (ZZF) - $175.00 for current Raptor - $55 Investment

1 x 74GB Raptor: $184.99 Shipped (Buy.com) - $175 Investment

Which will provide the best performance? I'm not really going to care too much about cost here, I mean I figure once you go Raptor cost isn't a factor anyway or you would never have gone Raptor in the first place!

 

[XRdirtHead]

I'll let you know if someone can help me out setting up my raid...I have a question posted but no help as of yet

 

[InlineFive]

Links to confirmed FDB 36GB Raptors?!

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Links to confirmed FDB 36GB Raptors?!

According to Western Digital all of the new Raptors are supposed to have FDB.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: jdogg707

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Links to confirmed FDB 36GB Raptors?!

According to Western Digital all of the new Raptors are supposed to have FDB.

Link? Last I heard they said only the 74GB models have FDB.

-Por

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Originally posted by: jdogg707

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Links to confirmed FDB 36GB Raptors?!

According to Western Digital all of the new Raptors are supposed to have FDB.

Link? Last I heard they said only the 74GB models have FDB.

-Por

I have no link, only I saw it on a post here, so I called Western Digital to confirm and they said all units made this year were infact FDB drives.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: jdogg707

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Originally posted by: jdogg707

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Links to confirmed FDB 36GB Raptors?!

According to Western Digital all of the new Raptors are supposed to have FDB.

Link? Last I heard they said only the 74GB models have FDB.

-Por

I have no link, only I saw it on a post here, so I called Western Digital to confirm and they said all units made this year were infact FDB drives.

Can anyone else confirm?

 

[XRdirtHead]

whats FDB????????????

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: XRdirtHead
whats FDB????????????

Fluid Dynamic Bearings, they make the drive much quieter.

 

[XRdirtHead]

I have a pair of them but the drives are far from silent....but hey...they are cranking at 10k....thats pretty fast

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: XRdirtHead
I have a pair of them but the drives are far from silent....but hey...they are cranking at 10k....thats pretty fast

A pair of 36GB drives or 74GB drives? I can bearly hear my 74GB Raptor and 160GB Hitachi I have running right now.

 

[Pariah]

The 36GB FDB have been out for weeks, there's just no way to know if you are getting one at this point.

 

[XRdirtHead]

Hey Jdogg,
I have the exact same setup. I didn't mean for it to sound like I had a nuclear war going on in my computer but I didn't want anyone to think they were silent either....

 

[ibm64]

Think it was PCMark that gave me 2689 as a HDD score....how does this compare to what other people got for their HDD setup?

And I know that everyone in here can probably shoot me down with better, but in case you were wondering that's CPU-7062, Memory-6933, HDD-2689.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Pariah
The 36GB FDB have been out for weeks, there's just no way to know if you are getting one at this point.

Thank you! I'll just let NewEgg's stock rotate a while more to be sure...