Keep the 74gb Raptor?

[Mr. Lennon]

Should I keep the 74GB Raptor for my OS/vent/office/spyware programs or should I sell it and just partition the WD640GB into 3 partitions?

 

[DarkRogue]

3 partitions would still be the same drive, so if you need to access stuff on all 3 logical drives, they'd all have to wait on each other.

Unless this isn't an issue for you, I personally would keep the Raptor. But then again, my friends also complain I always have too many hard drives, so I dunno.

 

[djplayer]

raptor on the OS and the 640gb for storage.

 

[zerodeefex]

I have an ADFD raptor right now and I have a WD 640 coming too. I'm going to short stroke it and reformat the raptor and see if the difference in speeds is noticable. If not, I'm gonna run the WD as my main and sell the raptor while it's still worth something.

 

[bfdd]

My 150gb Raptor holds just my games and OS, everything else is divided upon 750gb, 500gb, and 320gb harddrives

 

[deepinya]

Thats exactly the question I had in my thread. Is the WD640 worth the price for only storage?

 

[DarkRogue]

That would probably depend on what you're willing to spend on data storage.
I personally can't afford to spend too much on anything, so I opted for the WD 500GB AAKS's when they finally dropped under $100. The 640 is currently $110 on newegg, so the cost per GB is slightly lower, if you can spend more than $100.

If cost isn't a concern, the 640GB drives IIRC are quite fast due to the larger 320GB platters. That speed, while not as fast as a Raptor 150GB, does appear to nip at its heels from benchmarks I've seen. That could be very helpful when using it as a Photoshop scratch disk (although that's a massive disk to use for such a purpose.)

There are cheaper options, but if you can afford it, the pro's are clearly there.

Edit:
Silly me, I divided incorectly, 640 has a LOWER cost per GB, not higher.