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bonecrusher

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or for about $10 more or so you can get the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB (two of those if you want)
 
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BladeVenom

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I like just getting a nice big drive. Good performance and plenty of space. If you really want fast add a solid state disk drive, and put your games on that. That should improve load times.
 
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Check this article: http://alienbabeltech.com/?p=156

It's and 'old' raptor, I'll give you that, but it's also a 'old' 750gb HDD. If you buy a samsung f1 or WD 640gb HDD, it should be roughly equal to a 150gb velociraptor. But you get 5 times the storage amount.
 
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Tbirdkid

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Pick up a raptor for a boot drive, and boot drive only. Put your games on a nice big drive on the secondary that is just dedicated to that, and roll. That will speed up the performance in a huge way.
 
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Blain

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Originally posted by: bonecrusher
BEST DRIVE FOR GAMING RIG

please help me find a best solution for my new built gaming rig. I am not worried about space but i need top notch performance.
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Are you looking for the "best drive" or the "best solution"?
The "Best drive" and the "Best solution" for you to get "top notch performance" would be two 150GB VelociRaptor HDs in a RAID 0 array.

 
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Roguestar

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Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black

Best performing 7.2K RPM desktop drive you can buy, and not the ridiculous $/GB of the Raptors.
 
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Blain

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With the WD Black does he get "top notch performance"? :p

I'll save you a post... No, he doesn't.


bonecrusher, if you want quality, and I think you do...
If you want performance, I think you desire that also...
You'll buy two 150GB VelociRaptors and RAID them up together in a striped array. :laugh:

Don't listen to these other jokers around here. You deserve nothing but the finest SATA drives you can buy.
Sure you could opt for a SCSI RAID array and blow away the VelociRaptors. But no need to rub the other members noses in it. Still with SATA and you'll come out smelling like a rose.
All your friends will envy you, your rig. And after all, that's what it's really all about. ;)
 
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Navid

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Most games load into the memory, and it is the graphics card mainly and then the CPU and RAM that affect performance.

What kind of games do you play that need fast hard drives?
 
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Tbirdkid

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Most games do load into memory, but at the same time they are taxing the hard drive to get the info. This is why the fast hard drive helps. Like blain said, get a raptor...
 
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TheKub

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Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
Pick up a raptor for a boot drive, and boot drive only. Put your games on a nice big drive on the secondary that is just dedicated to that, and roll. That will speed up the performance in a huge way.
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??

Seems strange that you would recommend installing the game on a secondary (and most likely slower) drive. When playing the game all the reads will be coming from the slow drive pretty much eliminating any performance gain from the raptor.

Anyway, my recommendation is not to flip out about it, if your that concerned get a raptor, but I would drop the RAID 0. In alot of cases getting the really high end drive or using RAID only grants you a minimal speed increase at a fairly significant cost (in both money and reliably). Read the support forums there are plenty of people that had RAID issues that vow to never deal with it again.

RAID in your desktop != truly reliable server grade RAID.
 
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Roguestar

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RAID-0 has no place in a desktop PC. Especially seeing as we have neither the hard minimal-downtime and redundancy needs of a big server, and neither the decent RAID controllers in most cases!
 
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Replay

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Raid 0 works great for me. Old ide drives go into my lan boxes, which are strictly for gaming. They get paired up and striped on Promise PCI ATA100 IDE controllers, modded into Fastrack100 raid controllers. Can't get Intel 965 or P35 chipset boards to boot from these arrays, but they run fine on several AMD systems.

I'm watching those solid state drives develop. Like to have one for an OS drive (fast random access), and a large 7200rpm sata drive with high density platters.

Originally posted by: Roguestar
RAID-0 has no place in a desktop PC. Especially seeing as we have neither the hard minimal-downtime and redundancy needs of a big server, and neither the decent RAID controllers in most cases!
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If money's not an issue, go for one of the SLC SSD drives.

A-Data 64GB SLC SSD $600

Avoid the current crop of MLC drives, they have issues.

Otherwise, as mentioned above, go for the WD6400AAKS, about the fastest non-10k rpm drive you can get today.
 
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