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Are Raptors worth it?

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brucewayne

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My setup is a p4 560, inteld915pbl, 1GB ddr2, and Geforce 6600. I have a Seagate 120 7200rpm drive and am considering getting a 36gb raptor.

For those who have raptors, are they really that much faster?

I do very little gaming, mostly just web and office apps, listen to music, watch movies.

And I hear they are load, I HATE loud computers.

Are they faster for everything that I will be doing, is the difference like going from 5400 to 7200? Greater, less?

All comments and suggestions welcome, thanks!
 
Originally posted by: brucewayne
My setup is a p4 560, inteld915pbl, 1GB ddr2, and Geforce 6600. I have a Seagate 120 7200rpm drive and am considering getting a 36gb raptor.

For those who have raptors, are they really that much faster?

I do very little gaming, mostly just web and office apps, listen to music, watch movies.

And I hear they are load, I HATE loud computers.

Are they faster for everything that I will be doing, is the difference like going from 5400 to 7200? Greater, less?

All comments and suggestions welcome, thanks!
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If that is all you do, its a waste of money. Get a nice and big 7200rpm HD instead.
 
Yea.

Actually, they are not loud at all, i have two of them in a RAID 0 mode, and there very quiet.


But its not worth it.
When i test them in Sisoft, two Raptors in RAID 0 only do 2mbs faster then a par if 7200rpm drives in raid 0


so save ur money
 
I think they are good if you're using you system for video editing. I'm thinking of throwing in two 75GB 10,000 RPM Raptors and then have a nice large 400GB 7200 SATA drive for everything else.
 
I ran some SiSandra benchmarks with the ones I have for sale on a MSI RS480 Board w/ Athlon64 3000. My Results:
Single Raptor ~50MB/s
Mirrored Raptors ~40MB/s
Striped Raptors ~75MB/s

I would say the noise is no louder than my 250GB/s Hitachi Drive.

I notice a speed difference when I quicklaunch about 3 apps at the same time... but its nothing crazy. I'm still trying to decide if I notice any more of a difference running then in RAID-0. I was really disappointed that I lose 10MB/s running in a Mirror config...

Have others gotten similar results?
 
Contiguous large files benefit more from larger-capacity drives at 7,200 RPM than a smaller one at 10,000 RPM, especially when their areal density is greater than 10,000/7,200 beyond the smaller-storage drive. For lots of small files though, you would do better with the Raptor.
 
I wouldn't trade mine in. Seek noise is audible on the raptors, but the 74GB models use FDB motors, and they're pretty quiet. They are very fast drives though, and come with 5yr warranty too.
 
Originally posted by: SuperFreaky
I ran some SiSandra benchmarks with the ones I have for sale on a MSI RS480 Board w/ Athlon64 3000. My Results:
Single Raptor ~50MB/s
Mirrored Raptors ~40MB/s
Striped Raptors ~75MB/s

I would say the noise is no louder than my 250GB/s Hitachi Drive.

I notice a speed difference when I quicklaunch about 3 apps at the same time... but its nothing crazy. I'm still trying to decide if I notice any more of a difference running then in RAID-0. I was really disappointed that I lose 10MB/s running in a Mirror config...

Have others gotten similar results?
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yes, running 2 in RAID 0, i always hovered around 70-80MB/s

never tried them individually though
 
Originally posted by: Jassi
Originally posted by: brucewayne
My setup is a p4 560, inteld915pbl, 1GB ddr2, and Geforce 6600. I have a Seagate 120 7200rpm drive and am considering getting a 36gb raptor.

For those who have raptors, are they really that much faster?

I do very little gaming, mostly just web and office apps, listen to music, watch movies.

And I hear they are load, I HATE loud computers.

Are they faster for everything that I will be doing, is the difference like going from 5400 to 7200? Greater, less?

All comments and suggestions welcome, thanks!
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If that is all you do, its a waste of money. Get a nice and big 7200rpm HD instead.
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Don't get the 36GB version. They have design flaws. The 74GBs are much better in all aspect of noise, heat and performance.

Raptors' advantage is its seek time. Not transfer speed though because the aerial desity of new high capacity 7200 rpm drives are matching up. The access time would give you advantage in loading windows and applications, locating files and windows swap/paging files.

Your usage pattern suggests that you benefits not a lot. Those 7200rpm drives are fast enough
 
Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
Don't get the 36GB version. They have design flaws. The 74GBs are much better in all aspect of noise, heat and performance.

Raptors' advantage is its seek time. Not transfer speed though because the aerial desity of new high capacity 7200 rpm drives are matching up. The access time would give you advantage in loading windows and applications, locating files and windows swap/paging files.

Your usage pattern suggests that you benefits not a lot. Those 7200rpm drives are fast enough
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it think its worth it...even if he just surfs the web loading windows is worth the benefit, keep your 200gb drive and use the raptor as your OS and swap drive...

Also you might wanna wait till the SATAII raptor is released...I am doing an article on it now...and all I can say is that they are gonna kick ass...
 
What exactly are you trying to speed up? You shouldn't be spending any time waiting for anything on that computer...
 
The 36GB Raptor is kind of pathetic compared to newer SATA drives and the 74GB Raptor. I have two of each type and am going to sell the 36GB ones soon while the value is still high. It's price per gig is the worst of SATA drives and the latest large drives are getting very close to its performance.

Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
Also you might wanna wait till the SATAII raptor is released...I am doing an article on it now...and all I can say is that they are gonna kick ass...
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Sigh, the next generation Raptor... I'll be selling my 74GBs to replace it for one when it comes out. Hurry up WD. Announce it so we can start that annoying wait before they actually become available. 😉

 
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