Best Hard Drive for Boot/Windows Install

[Tired of the Bull]

I'm thinking of buying a new HD to use as my main OS/Applications drive. I want to buy the fastest drive I can (Perpindicular?) but I've read horror stories about booting the new Seagate drives.

1. Would a new drive show significant performance increase over current 250GB 7200RPM ATA133 drive?

2. Are there real issues using the new drives to boot from.

My current MB has SATA connectors but they are first generation.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

WD Raptor 150 🙂

 

[GrammatonJP]

In term of performance
Dual IRAM in RAID 0
Single IRAM
WD Raptor 150
WD Raptor 74
All the rest

 

[EagleEye]

I believe the new seagate 750gb is the fastest 7200RPM drive, but you won't notice any big difference. I would personally just keep your current drive, but if you really want fast boot, then go for a single IRAM (although it is very pricy and not the most stable of drives- only 16 hours i think w/o being powered)

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Raptor 74GB is faster than the 150. now remember I'm referring to the NEW NLR01 74GB Raptors (16mb cache) not the old ones.

I boot Windows from my WD 74GB Raptor and other crap is on my 7200.9 drive.

 

[Tired of the Bull]

Would I see any real difference in everyday use?

 

[mshan]

I think you would see / feel increased "snappiness" in your system because of the extremely low latency / seek times of the Raptors (not sustained transfer rates).

 

[bob4432]

get the newest gen u320 15K scsi hdd, second in seek times only to a iram