Current best Alternative to a raptor

[jdoggg12]

I currently have a 36gb raptor, 80gig wd eide, and a wd 120gig sata.

i want to get rid of the eide b/c it causes so many headaches. Whats the best hard drive between 150-400 gigs out right now?

 

[dBTelos]

You could probably cure your IDE problems fairly easily. But if you're set on a new drive, the Perpendicular recording Seagates seem to be the quickest drives that arn't raptors.

 

[SoMBrA]

dBTelos is right. Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 🙂
I got 2x 320 in RAID0 and WOW is all i have to say 🙂. Great average transfer rate (116mb/sec benchmarked with HDTune)

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: dBTelos
You could probably cure your IDE problems fairly easily. But if you're set on a new drive, the Perpendicular recording Seagates seem to be the quickest drives that arn't raptors.

i've had issues with it for a while - i was having issues like the error msg "error loading operating system" and some other errors when trying to reinstall on the raptor. i tried a lot of things - the only thing that worked was to unplug the ide HD - which unfortunately has ALL my saved info 🙁

 

[Jjoshua2]

I ditto the 320 gb 7200.10 seagates. Two for raid sounds great! 🙂 But they're fine single too.

 

[Baked]

Pair of Seagate 7200.10 in RAID 0.