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OEM Raptor from NewEgg.

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AdamMT1618

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Does an OEM Raptor from NewEgg come with the SATA cable?

Am I making a good investment by going from 200GB 7200RPM SeaGate HD to a 74GB Raptor? Will I really tell the difference?

Thank you.
 
personally, i don't think you did the right move. where the raptor performs better, it's not too significant, and when it is, it doesn't matter. or your computer boots up 5 seconds faster. heck 10 seconds faster. are you really in that much of a hurry to get on? i've heard the new SATA II drives are just as fast as the raptors too
 
Originally posted by: alimoalem
personally, i don't think you did the right move. where the raptor performs better, it's not too significant, and when it is, it doesn't matter. or your computer boots up 5 seconds faster. heck 10 seconds faster. are you really in that much of a hurry to get on? i've heard the new SATA II drives are just as fast as the raptors too
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Yes, defiantly it makes a difference because FPS games you want maps to load quickly and on RPGs you want worlds to load quickly. I wanted a new HD because I am low on storage, like 360 gigs total right now, so I thought a fast HD would be good for the primary HD for gaming. My 200GB and 160GB HD are getting kind of full so they run slower.

I haven't seen a SATA 2 for sale.
 
What is it with all of the Raptor naysayers recently? It'll be faster for some things; for other things it'll perform similarly or in some rare cases slightly slower. If your usage patterns suggest that you'd benefit from the Raptor, then go for it. If you'll be using the drive primarily for mass storage of videos, MP3s, etc... it's not worth it. If you'll be using it for something that involves frequent random access/seeks, it'll handily outperform 7200rpm SATA drives.
 
I previously had a 120 gb WD IDE as my OS drive/scratch disc/blah blah. My main slow process was audio conversions such as 90 minute .wav file to 64kbps .mp3. This took about 4-6 minutes depending.

Built a new system with the 36 gb Raptor as the OS/scratch disc only drive. Guess what? The same process is now down to 90-120 seconds. Also when editing the .wav file it started at 1.2 gb. I use Goldwave for editing and each time I deleted a section of audio, it would take up to 10 seconds to refresh the screen. This is down to 2-5 seconds.

Yes it boots up twice as fast, but as a person who rarely shuts down, that wasn't my concern. Audio processing was paramount.

I did go from 768 mb RAM to 2048 mb, but that's mostly moot, right?
 
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