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best hdd...10000 or 7200

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beany323

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Hello guys!

been here a few days, using that search button, but maybe i am looking at the incorrect area.

(so my apologies in advance)

looking at a sli rig..now the harddrive choices i have are/is:

1). MAXTOR 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB CACHE HARD DRIVE [+173]

2). Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB Cache -- Recommended [+99]

3). Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB Cache WD360GD [+125]

4). Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB Cache WD740GD [+203]

i know that one reads faster/writes faster...but does the difference of 250 - 74 gb worth the price difference?

(i have 80gb hd in my home pc (soon to become my kids song pc!)) and 80gb went fast!!!

once again sorry to ask a stupid question... but i know someone knows this off the top of their head..

thanks again!

beany323
 
Maybe some of the hardcore guys swear by the 10000rpm, but for me, the (theoretical) speed advantage isn't worth the cost.

Go with the extra capacity - 250Gb/7200rpm would be what I would go with. If you're looking at a better price point, you may get 2 x 160Gb or 2 x 200Gb for close to the same total cost after rebates as the 250Gb in your post at $173.
 
A 7200RPM is fine. If you want some Raptor speed with storage, use a Raptor (74GB) as your boot drive with your OS and applications, and use a separate drive for data. That price for the 74GB Raptor is a bit high, though--Newegg has it for about $180 before $25 MIR.

Good luck with your new build.
 
Thanks guys thats kinda what i was thinking...

would it be "wise" to have one 100000 as a drive to run games (fps and so on) and the other as my storage hdd?

appreciate the help, thank you.
 
That's exactly what I suggested, if you want--though the speed difference may not be worth it. You'll have to check with others who own Raptors and aren't currently biased by any placebo effect.

For your 7200RPM drives, by the way, get Seagate. They're regarded as the best HDs around here; quiet, good performers, and have 5-year warranties.
 
Originally posted by: flamingspinach
Yes, get a Seagate 7200RPM drive. The Barracuda series is excellent.

Just wondering, but where are you quoting your prices from?

-fs
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if you are asking me, that is the price for the config at cyberpowerinc.

Atm they seem to be lower in price for a sli system (and a straight pci-e, still deciding on which to go)

for them it's : sli best/or damn close to best - 3500
pci with fx-55 - 2500

(those prices are rounding down, just in case my wife see's this post!)

thanks!!!

edit: and still deciding about 2 ultras (which sounds nice) or a gt...

note: i did learn one thing, and that is to go with amd not intel for gaming...that is the one thing that i did learn...

bring on the knowledge!!!!

beany323
 
Hmm... SLI seems prohibitively expensive for most purposes right now (and 6600GT SLI is pointless). Do you actually plan to be running on a 19x14 display? If not, I feel a better bet would be to buy a single 6800GT right now and then upgrade to another single card down the line (like a 7800GT or XII800 Pro) when necessary. After all, the 9700 Pro has been a very capable card for quite a while, and a 6800GT should serve you that well for just as long.
 
thanks, yea i have learned well grasshopper.... i knew that it was going to be a 6800gt or 6800u...(considered the ati also) do i need sli...probably not... (although you gotta admit seeing those 2 cards side-by-side can give you some w@@d!) (i got a 1.3 celiron comp at the moment and its not making it)
as i save a few dollars i should have enough in 2-3 months (if i quit adding to my shopping list!)
(but the wife did say she saw a $500 corner desk on sale....(at least its on sale!!)

i gotta learn more, (and i (as you will see) do ask allot of questions...

i apprecate the help big time and if you were in so. cal..i'd buy you a beer!!!

thanks again!!!
 
You're quite welcome. Even if I did live a bit farther south, though (I live in Fresno), I'd have to pass on the beer offer for at minimum 7 years (age).
 
Well here is the thing, if you *really want the best performance, get a SCSI drive that's 15K RPM in a possible raid configuration (0 is good but 5 is preferable). They are without a doubt the fastest drives out there with out being "ram disks" which are just insanely fast but VERY VERY expensive compared to SCSI drives. If you get a 15K rpm drive, I heard you can run operating systems just from the page file (64MB of ram on Winxp) and they will run perfectly fine because of how fast they are.

Though I wouldn't do it for very long because thats exactally what my school did but these were old drives from 1999 which were like 5400RPM and the computers were SO SLOW. The drives ended up having write failures and when this occured, I decided to write a letter to the school tech to why the machines were f***ing up. He finally changed the drives and added more ram, the only time in my life I feel like I've made a difference.....
 
I almost got the 36gb raptor till I read the benchmarks here at Anandtech and saw it wasn't any good. My thought was that I don't use hardly any space, and the 74GB would be more than I need. But I was going for the raptor for performance. The 74GB is a lot faster than the 36GB raptor. So that's what I went with. If space isn't an issue, raptor is the obvious choice.
 
I'd just go for the large 7200. I have a 74GB raptor and a 200GB Seagate. The raptor is a bit faster to me but not by alot and if you filled your old 80GB up fast than a 74 will go even quicker.
 
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