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Originally posted by: Mr Bob
This was a great read. I love my raptor, and always thought it was the BEST drive.

Southpaw lost me when he started dissing on StorageReview.
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- Maybe that was because you didn't read the entire thread?

I think everyone would agree that real world benchmarks outweigh synthetic benchmarks (assuming I have a correct definition of a synthetic benchmark).

It seems like Frackal doesn't believe so. Frackal, have you notice bad experiences with anandtech's reviews? Maybe that is why you favor the StorageReview website.
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???? The only place the 7200.8 is impressive is that Doom3 bench, otherwise the Raptor wins most of the real and all of the synthetic, except a few
 
Originally posted by: Frackal
Originally posted by: southpawuni
Originally posted by: Frackal
I bought mine for overall system performance, and at that, they are the best SATA drives out there.

I would not trade 1-2 secs difference in game loading times for slower performance in almost every other area, not to mention double the seek time
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As long as you can justify buying into the Raptor hype that they are the best drives going.. then great.

Small drives with a hefty price tag, no 5 year warranty and you still have slower gaming drives than me regardless.
Kinda sad considering I have 250GB more space than you do as well. At half the price.

You can talk all you want, but for such supposedly superior drives its damn sad they cant even beat a cheaper drive with a 5 year warranty in level loads.

More than likely, you didnt read or pay attention to that review before plopping down $400 or so for two 74GB Raptors. 😀
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Uhh, the Raptor does have a 5 year warranty genius

I'm really weeping over 1.3 seconds timed with a stopwatch hahaha

And PS, I bought the second one 6 months after the first, despite having a Diamond 9 in between.

I barely use 15 gigs anyway, who the hell needs 250
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Whoa dude, I have 600 atm (3x 200Gb DM10+) and looking to get more. Just ordered a 200Gb external Maxtor... Not to mention the 2x 18Gb 10krpm scsi drives in raid-0 that has my OS.

 
Here's 1 nother thought...How about a misprint?...Been done all the time.
I'm just pleased to see that WD finally is going to a 5yr warranty outside the Raptor with the Caviar RE2
 
Originally posted by: Earsly
I got a raptor and its damn fast...also loud! but it is fast....fast i tell ya!
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Everybody keeps talking about the raptor's noise...and maybe i'm deaf...my fiance might think that at times.... but i don't think it's that loud at all...

 
Originally posted by: Mr Bob


Southpaw lost me when he started dissing on StorageReview.
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- Maybe that was because you didn't read the entire thread?

I think everyone would agree that real world benchmarks outweigh synthetic benchmarks (assuming I have a correct definition of a synthetic benchmark).
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My problem with his real world benchmarks is that they're not MY REAL WORLD.

Real world benches that don't match my world=synthetic benchmarks, for all intents and purposes.

Like when they did the raid 0 tests here and said they didn't help anything besides game loading sometimes... yet they never had multiple writes or even multiple simultaneous reads going, from multiple sources.

I was the first person on the map every single round of DoD:source last night...

 
Frackal, on the SAS stuff:

Serial Attached SCSI.

Server vendors are already selling the stuff, just a matter of time till it trickles down to the consumer level. Cheaper than current SCSIs, not any faster(than current SCSI), though, of course, they're not gonna undercut their own market.
 
Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
i'm using a 5400 rpm laptop drive and to be honest my system is pretty damn responsive. having 1GB+ of ram always helps, along with a speedy 1.86 Pentium M processor.
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You loser! You don't have a Turion? The only true mobile processor with real 64bit performance in the world :laugh: 😉

The Turion dominates the Dothans. What were you thinking. What an Intel fanboi.


And yes, I am kidding for those whose sarcastic meters are broken.
 
Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33
Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
i'm using a 5400 rpm laptop drive and to be honest my system is pretty damn responsive. having 1GB+ of ram always helps, along with a speedy 1.86 Pentium M processor.
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You loser! You don't have a Turion? The only true mobile processor with real 64bit performance in the world :laugh: 😉

The Turion dominates the Dothans. What were you thinking. What an Intel fanboi.


And yes, I am kidding for those whose sarcastic meters are broken.
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HOW DARE YOU MOCK THE PENTIUM M!!!! GRRRRR

 
He neglected to mention that the Turion laptops have really only been available for a month or so, and up until then the P-M was a monster. Hell, I don't even have one yet.
 
Thank you for posting that Tom's Drive Comparison. I just finished going through it and reading some of this forum. Once again, Raptor overall is the winner. You can't beat it's performance on any SATA drive.

 
I agree with all the post the Raptor is the fastest SATA drive at the moment. That guy sticking to one doom 3 load benchmark doesn't know WTF he is talking about. So what if 7200.8 wins a couple game loading benchs it still looses the majority. And another thing who builds a computer thinking a HD will improve gaming. The only thing a HD will do is improve load times. And for that if you care about your gaming loading times so much your better off with Raid 0. The people I know like myself who buy raptors buy them for the low seek times and the responsiveness. And the fact that u diss storage review, means your a nub, they provide the best HD benchmarks on the net! I don't think he has ever used a raptor as a boot drive. And another thing the raptor is a business class drive and that is the market they aim for, the fact that u said who would use it for a business proves your a nub. just because gamers buy raptors doesn't mean it is the market WD intended it for. You pay the high price not just for the RPM's!
 
What's ESATA? is that a misprint. I might want to get this to upgrade over my 37gb since I have a dell concession coupon.

Ears
 
another question for the guy that owns that drive. is it really 80GB or just a typo on the dell site. what is the usage space on the drive in GB's after the format?
 
Raptor vs. 7200.8

I've used both. The Raptor is a lot faster than the 7200.8.
In fact my 7200.7 feels faster than the 7200.8

I don't know where Ananadtech's review got such great load times, but on my system the load times are definately slower with the 7200.8

 
Well for a piece of considerably old hardware, the Raptor is still kicking some 4ss. Not to mention that out of all the components I bought 6 months ago it is the only one whose price hasn't considerably dropped. The bottom line never lies.
 
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