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New raptor, seems.... "eh"

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JimRaynor

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I upgraded from a 40gb barracuda IV, and I can tell there is a speed difference but it's not as big as I thought it would be. I ran HD Tach on my old drive and here were the results:

Access time: 14.3ms
Read burst speed: 69mb/s
Read speed max: 44.3mb/s
Read speed min: 24.0mb/s
Average: 37.6mb/s

And my raptor:
Access time: 8ms
Read burst speed: 96.8mb/s
Read speed max: 65.0mb/s
Read speed min: 39.9/s
Average: 56.6mb/s

Now, the numbers look pretty good, but as far as real world performance things are really about the same. The thing I really noticed is that all my little apps and progs are installed almost instantaneously. But things like games--when i load battlefield maps it takes the same amount of time to load... Are these numbers about right? Is there any way I can "tweak" it so that it runs faster? What kind of performance increase can I expect from raid 0? Any input would be much appreciated, thank you.
 
The improvement in seek time is probably more signifigant than anything. If you need to read lots of little files, that seek time will really help out.
 
yeah, i can definitely get a feeling of more responsiveness. In hindsight, my barracuda's access times really sucked. -_-;;;
 
If you want faster Battlefield 1942 a faster hd does help but upgrading from your 512 megs of ram to 1 gig will get you better results.
 
Originally posted by: 1966
If you want faster Battlefield 1942 a faster hd does help but upgrading from your 512 megs of ram to 1 gig will get you better results.
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I agree, this helped out on my system. Also I read somewhere (storage review site) that said hard drives with an 8MB buffer load games just as fast as current SATA or Raid-0 setups. They did benchmarks on two DiamondMax 9 8MBs and a single DM9+ loaded games about 2% slower then two drives in Raid-0.

-Por
 
Originally posted by: 1966
If you want faster Battlefield 1942 a faster hd does help but upgrading from your 512 megs of ram to 1 gig will get you better results.
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Second that. The higher your memory and FSB run at the quicker your maps and games will load.
 
I think the "eh" sums up my raptor upgrade experience. It's nice for installing programs and windows, but not too noticeable for every day use. I am happy with it overall.
 
Originally posted by: pelikan
I think the "eh" sums up my raptor upgrade experience. It's nice for installing programs and windows, but not too noticeable for every day use. I am happy with it overall.
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My Raptors in RAID 0 totaly rock, i really feel the difference on bootups, prog launches, and some on game loads, realy it just give the system more responsiveness overall

 
Originally posted by: OverVolt
Originally posted by: pelikan
I think the "eh" sums up my raptor upgrade experience. It's nice for installing programs and windows, but not too noticeable for every day use. I am happy with it overall.
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My Raptors in RAID 0 totaly rock, i really feel the difference on bootups, prog launches, and some on game loads, realy it just give the system more responsiveness overall
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Raid 0 is probably the answer. Very tempting. But my single raptor has a high-pitched whine. I only run panaflo fans so I don't have much noise to cover it up. I think if I had another drive in there with that whine it may be too much.
 
Any information on the ship date of the new 74 GB raptor? Its supposed to be even faster than the first generation drive.
 
Well I use Seagate 40gb Barricuda IV, Raptors and RAID O so here's my .02c!

I'm impressed with the Raptors, I first noticed a speed increase in program loading, installing, boots, etc. In regard to my RAID system (2x120 WD 8mb) it's playing the same game IMO. For my video editing, RAID pulls through faster but I drool to think what a Raptor RAID array would do for me!

Raptors seem like a fast, perky italian race car and my RAID reminds me of an old school brute force/big engine power car (sorry about the cheese, but that's what it's like 😉 )
 
Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Originally posted by: 1966
If you want faster Battlefield 1942 a faster hd does help but upgrading from your 512 megs of ram to 1 gig will get you better results.
Click to expand...

I agree, this helped out on my system. Also I read somewhere (storage review site) that said hard drives with an 8MB buffer load games just as fast as current SATA or Raid-0 setups. They did benchmarks on two DiamondMax 9 8MBs and a single DM9+ loaded games about 2% slower then two drives in Raid-0.

-Por
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I just went from 512MB to 1GB dual channel and BF1942 loads maps a lot faster now. I kept wondering why my friends with slower cpu's and harddrive setups (I have 2 80gb sata in raid 0) would get into the game faster than me, and then found out they all had 1gb and I only had 512.
 
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