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Fastest hard drive?
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I think that a subtext of most of the posts in this and similar threads is that HD performance, once you're over some basic minimum, just doesn't make much of a difference for general-purpose usage and gaming in particular.
So I'd say get a nice big fat hard drive that is around the peak of the capacity/price ratio, even if you don't need the capacity for the forseeable future -- there's a good chance that you will at some time -- and big drives tend to be faster than smaller ones for the same amount of storage.
On the other hand, if your interests take you to Raptors for some hardware pride-of-ownership reasons, then the clear answer is to get the Raptor 150 -- it's the new single-user king.
As to RAID, that gets more complicated. SR's done some preliminary studies, and they show that 2x Raptor 74 Raid0 is not as fast at 1x Raptor 150 in some specific tests (omitting the obvious large file transfers but including game loading), but there are actually several different ways to configure even two drives -- raid striping, and even non-raid, allocating one spindle for some tasks and another for others. In some specific cases, this will outperform all the others -- single fast drive, two striped drives, etc. My point is that nobody's done the sort of analysis that could hope to answer what's best in every case, including some special cases.
But, returning to the original point, for typical usage, none of this really matters. When it does really matter, you should consider some complex alternatives (e.g more RAM -- that's usually a good answer 🙂 rather than simple to raid or not to raid or drive x vs. drive y.
So I'd say get a nice big fat hard drive that is around the peak of the capacity/price ratio, even if you don't need the capacity for the forseeable future -- there's a good chance that you will at some time -- and big drives tend to be faster than smaller ones for the same amount of storage.
On the other hand, if your interests take you to Raptors for some hardware pride-of-ownership reasons, then the clear answer is to get the Raptor 150 -- it's the new single-user king.
As to RAID, that gets more complicated. SR's done some preliminary studies, and they show that 2x Raptor 74 Raid0 is not as fast at 1x Raptor 150 in some specific tests (omitting the obvious large file transfers but including game loading), but there are actually several different ways to configure even two drives -- raid striping, and even non-raid, allocating one spindle for some tasks and another for others. In some specific cases, this will outperform all the others -- single fast drive, two striped drives, etc. My point is that nobody's done the sort of analysis that could hope to answer what's best in every case, including some special cases.
But, returning to the original point, for typical usage, none of this really matters. When it does really matter, you should consider some complex alternatives (e.g more RAM -- that's usually a good answer 🙂 rather than simple to raid or not to raid or drive x vs. drive y.
Bobthelost
Diamond Member
If you've got the money to spend and no where else to spend it then by all means get a Raptor 150.
is there a difference between raptor X and raptor 150???
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136012
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136011
other then the window and the price...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136012
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136011
other then the window and the price...
Bobthelost
Diamond Member
Window and price, oh and the X has a lesser MTBF and possibly warranty?
Get the 150.
Get the 150.
Bobthelost
Diamond Member
Get the raptor 150.
Yes, SR posted some preliminary results that showed one Raptor 150 was faster than four 74GB Raptors in RAID 0 in 4 out of their 5 single user benchmarks. In the 5th test, the RAID array managed to tie the Raptor 150. RAID is completely overrated for desktop use, and in all but the rarest of cases should be avoided altogether.
There is no new 74GB Raptor, nor will there be. If you want to wait for one though, you can join the people still waiting for the new 36GB Raptor they thought was coming when the 74GB variant was released 2 years ago.
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