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Convince me not to get a 74 gig raptor

i just picked one up, havent had a chance to install but from what i hear, its worth it for the faster bootup times and the level loading in games
 
to me, the $/gb does not justify the performance increase. in other words, it doesn't have the capacity as well as the price tag to be worth the performance increase.
 
I own one and wish that I spent the money on a nice big seagate drive, if you have enough disposable money then by all means get it but if you are trying to be practical just save your money.
 
Because at this point, you should wait for the next gen Raptors. The Raptor was fast 1-2 years ago, but 7200rpm drives have caught up and the Raptor's performance advantage isn't as large now.
 
to me, the $/gb does not justify the performance increase. in other words, it doesn't have the capacity as well as the price tag to be worth the performance increase.
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I second that, not TOO impressed with mine for the $$ I spent
 
I can only relate to this with my 36Gb Fujitsu 10krpm SCSI drive, which is as similar to the Raptor as you can get, SCSI etc notwithstanding. I've noticed a serious increase in responsiveness when there's a lot going on in the machine. Heavy VM paging operations are MUCH quicker with this drive than with a 200Gb Seagate 7200.7 PATA, and you can open a lot more applications simultaneously without too much bother. If speed's your goal, then the Raptor will be a nice boost, but it's not a magic wand.
 
Originally posted by: Green84061
I own one and wish that I spent the money on a nice big seagate drive, if you have enough disposable money then by all means get it but if you are trying to be practical just save your money.
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Yep I own one also, and I did go out and buy a nice big WD drive. The Raptor in my opinion is pretty much a waste of money, for the cost it's just not worth it in my opinion. I must also say that it is nice to turn on PC and have it load to my desktop in about 12 seconds or so.
 
I've a 300gig wd that I recentley recieved, however, with the 280gb extra i have in pata, why not make them into a raptor or two?
 
I own one and I'm about to buy another one for my work computer. Raptors ftw. Don't listen to the other people who don't like them. Raptors are great drives to compliment your storage drives.
 
I have a 74gig Raptor (bought it well over a year ago) and I am not terribly impressed over my 7200rpm drives. It subjectively feels a little faster but not a lot. Of course a year and a half ago it was definitely the cream of the crop. I am starting to feel the SCSI itch for some reason. (And yes I have a dualcore X2 4400+ at 2640)
 
I have 2 - 160GB RAID 0 and never complained about boot times. The only drawback is to make sure you have a good back up plan which I do on a 300 GB third drive. The cost of the 2 160 GB drives is still less than the raptor.
 
These days, a Raptor isn't likely worth it, but each to their own.

I personally have one, & when i got mine, it was significantly faster than the other HDDs i had/have.
I could feel the difference.

I'm not sure i could recommend it with all these fast SATAII NCQ HDDs, etc...
 
not worth it the speed isnt much faster why spend the extra money when you will not even notice it when you can notice alot more space.
 
Maybe if they released a 15k RPM Raptor, but the current 10k RPM one just doesn't offer enough of a speed increase to justify its huge price tag.
 
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