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74gig raptor vs. 500gig western digital?

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gplracer

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My new quad core is on the way! Should I install the OS on my 74gig raptor or my 500gig Western Digital sata drive. I know these newer drives are fast but I do not know how much benefit it is to have the raptor now. Plus the raptor is much smaller. Thanks!!!
 
neither get the westrn digital 640gb, why? because it uses a 2 platter design which makes it much faster than the 500gb and as fast as the old raptors oh and having a largerhard drive doesnt hurt either.
 
I'd install it on a larger drive, personally, as I like to stick most programs in the default C: drive so they can go into Program Files to avoid any kind of trouble.
 
The raptor would be still better for an OS install drive (about the only thing they are usefull at nowdays). The large capacity drives can match the raptors in read speed but when it comes to seek times the raptors are still a lot faster.
As far as programs go, as long as you install games and very large progs on a separate drive you won't have any issues. Documents shouldn't be on your OS drive/partition anyways, unless you want to loose em.

I was using a 74gig (16mg cache) raptor as my boot drive for a long time. The comp just feels a lot snappier all round. So if you already have the raptor why not use it?
Just recently I decided to take my older 74 gig (8mg cache) one out of storage and raid 0 them, quite a nice performance diff considering I wasn't using the older drive at all.
 
I would have gone with the Raptor also. The 500GB WD doesn't have as high a platter density as the 640GB version.
 
I have two Seagate Hds. One is 500 gb 16mb and one is 250 gb. 32mb. I am running Vista and have the 500 as my back up. When I access it it takes about 3-4 secs for everything to show up. I can also hear it start up and start spinning. Should superfetch affect this. Shouldnt the load time be faster? I access the drive every few days.
 
Originally posted by: powerup
I have two Seagate Hds. One is 500 gb 16mb and one is 250 gb. 32mb. I am running Vista and have the 500 as my back up. When I access it it takes about 3-4 secs for everything to show up. I can also hear it start up and start spinning. Should superfetch affect this. Shouldnt the load time be faster? I access the drive every few days.
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You can disable spindown for a drive, so it always responds quickly.
 
Well it is all installed but now I only have 40 gigs left after the OS install and office. GEEZ! I might have to go back to the 500gig or buy a 640gig. Is there really that much of a difference?
 
40GBs is fine. You want your OS drive to be snappy.

I'd make sure I left 20% open on the OS drive for nice fast defrags.
 
I wouldn't bother with apps on a different drive.
Unless you have so many that it pushes the Raptor to less than 20% free space.
 
Originally posted by: gplracer
Well it is all installed but now I only have 40 gigs left after the OS install and office. GEEZ! I might have to go back to the 500gig or buy a 640gig. Is there really that much of a difference?
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what os? what version of office? damn....
 
A 74GB drive is not really 74GB, so you lose a few GB there, plus there are already likely a few restore points and temp files taking up some space. Do a disk cleanup and delete all but your last restore point.

My Vista install sticks around 25GB with system restore off. I have Office 2007 and lots of apps installed too.
 
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
A 74GB drive is not really 74GB, so you lose a few GB there, plus there are already likely a few restore points and temp files taking up some space. Do a disk cleanup and delete all but your last restore point.

My Vista install sticks around 25GB with system restore off. I have Office 2007 and lots of apps installed too.
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well, my 15k u320 fujitsu max 74GB shows up as 68.4GB, w/ xp and all its sp3 updated, office 2k7, i think professional, bf2, coh😱f, the adobe master collection and also illustrator and ps cs2 and a bunch of other stuff i am using 40GB. this drive has no restore points or the pagefile on it, but still 25GB for a os and office is ridiculous.
 
People don't consider reducing program size a priority any more in terms of efficiency now that everyone has 3489573GB hard drives in their machines. Still, it's nice to see something compact that does the same job as a program many times its size. Check out http://www.tinyapps.org for some examples 🙂.


Edit: .org not .com
 
Originally posted by: Roguestar
People don't consider reducing program size a priority any more in terms of efficiency now that everyone has 3489573GB hard drives in their machines. Still, it's nice to see something compact that does the same job as a program many times its size. Check out http://www.tinyapps.org for some examples 🙂.


Edit: .org not .com
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here you on that. i like the guys that can still program in assembly make a small app that is like 2-5KB but still does so much. not that you need that anymore, but w/ todays sizes and speed of hdds, along w/ abundance of ram and dual and quad cores being the mainstream it is neat to see that dying breed of programmer.
 
Let me say up front I'm a Raptor fan. Been buying them since the original 36Gb came out. Nothing faster or better than a Raptor when it comes to booting up and loading IMO. Although there are some very good runner ups to them. And this is where I'll start to go away from using a Raptor in my post. If (read *If*) you are only going to use one hard drive in your system I'd say dont get the 74Gb Raptor. Why? Storage space. 74Gb isnt enough these days in my opinion. Today's games are getting bigger and bigger. Especially if you are into MMOs. Some games are bigger than 10Gb now and pushing 20Gb once all the patches and updates are added. Even the 150Gb Raptor is too small when you have multiple games loaded onto your system IMO. In today's pc world getting anything smaller than a 250Gb hard drive is just too small. I think 500Gb is the new ideal but thats just me. I have a Seagate 500Gb in one of my SFF rigs and its almost as every bit as good as the 74Gb and 150Gb Raptors. Its Sata III and has 32Mb cache. So unless you want to splurge on the new 300Gb Raptor I'd say get a good 250Gb+ hard drive if you only plan on having a single hard drive in your system. It'll also be cheaper if that is a major concern for you. Raptors are not cheap when compared to other drives of same size.

Note: I'm speaking from a gamer's perspective here and only putting in my own personal opinion having used Raptors for years.

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention... With a 74Gb Raptor and 500Gb hard drive I'd put the O/S on the Raptor.
 
You know I just realized why my install of Vista was so large. Vista makes a folder with a copy of the previous operating system called windows.old. That sucker was taking up a lot of space.
 
Well.......... I formated it like I usually do for Windows XP. It just backed up the old operating system in a folder and put it on the hard drive as well. I do not remember seeing that option honestly.
 
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