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Raptor 74gb 10000rpm for $150 @ New Egg

i have one already running XP in a non-raid configuration...

for those that run a RAID 0, and also have run single drive, is there any real world noticeble difference?

the drive itself is pretty fast and i notice significant gains in my a64 3400 setup.

thanks

jC
 
Originally posted by: Chunkee
i have one already running XP in a non-raid configuration...

for those that run a RAID 0, and also have run single drive, is there any real world noticeble difference?

the drive itself is pretty fast and i notice significant gains in my a64 3400 setup.

thanks

jC
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Yes I run a raid 0 and have noticed about a 35% increase in my read times. I started with a single 74GB Raptor and now have two with a raid 0 I ran benchmarks on the system before I bought the second Raptor and now with it. I use SiSandra to benchmark the drives, anyone else have similar gains?
 
Originally posted by: Chunkee
i have one already running XP in a non-raid configuration...

for those that run a RAID 0, and also have run single drive, is there any real world noticeble difference?

the drive itself is pretty fast and i notice significant gains in my a64 3400 setup.

thanks

jC
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Yes there is a big difference. But only if you are using a PCI-Express raid card.
A PCI raid card maxes out the PCI bus and you don't get a huge Raid 0 proformance increase.
 
just bought one for the a64 system i'm working on building...better than the price a few days ago when I was gonna order, glad I held off a bit. Thanks
 
Originally posted by: superHARD
Originally posted by: Chunkee
i have one already running XP in a non-raid configuration...

for those that run a RAID 0, and also have run single drive, is there any real world noticeble difference?

the drive itself is pretty fast and i notice significant gains in my a64 3400 setup.

thanks

jC
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Yes there is a big difference. But only if you are using a PCI-Express raid card.
A PCI raid card maxes out the PCI bus and you don't get a huge Raid 0 proformance increase.
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i'm not interested in proformance anyway 😉
 
i missed the dead line(5:30 PT), do they have free shipping during the sale? i dont not need 74GB as boot drive, but i think 74gb is better proformer than the 36GB one.
 
This deal is still valid, the rebate is still valid until like Jan 16th. However the price is now $155 AR and it has $3.19 shipping.


Lol, I just noticed that if you buy 3 drives you get the drive down to $155 each. DANG, thats down to the rebate price, and you could use the rebate on one of those yet still! Too bad I dont know 2 ppl who would buy one with me. Or even better yet someone out of state could buy a set of 3 and sell them 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Devistater
This deal is still valid, the rebate is still valid until like Jan 16th. However the price is now $155 AR and it has $3.19 shipping.


Lol, I just noticed that if you buy 3 drives you get the drive down to $155 each. DANG, thats down to the rebate price, and you could use the rebate on one of those yet still! Too bad I dont know 2 ppl who would buy one with me. Or even better yet someone out of state could buy a set of 3 and sell them 🙂
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Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD740GD, OEM Drive Only
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tried 3 and it when down to 152.35 before rebate 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Schwan
Can you use this rebate on more than one raptor??
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Rebate says one per customer/name/address

What I always do, is do a rebate in the name of another family member 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Krk3561
Originally posted by: Schwan
Can you use this rebate on more than one raptor??
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Rebate says one per customer/name/address

What I always do, is do a rebate in the name of another family member 🙂
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Well since this is a newegg rebate, you'd have to bill and ship that order separately to another address too.
 
got mine on friday - have them running in intel matrix raid 0+1 on a Dell Dim 8400 - these puppies rule... huge speed improvement, apps and programs load and install in a snap - it took 7 minutes to load SP2 (!!!)
 
What is the best setup for 2 raptors and an ide:

- raid 0 w/ OS and ide for stored files like music pics . . .
- ide for OS and raid 0 for files and such

I have an AIW and record tv shows occasionally and tivo it too. I'm getting the K8N NEO2 PLATINUM MSI and 2 raptors. I game also so the load times w/ the raid 0 w/ the OS would help. I use 1 gig of ram so the swap file shouldn't be too much of an issue. If the raid 0 is w/ the OS would I be better off using the raid drives for my MMC functions or the ide drive?
 
Originally posted by: Argis
What is the best setup for 2 raptors and an ide:

- raid 0 w/ OS and ide for stored files like music pics . . .
- ide for OS and raid 0 for files and such

I have an AIW and record tv shows occasionally and tivo it too. I'm getting the K8N NEO2 PLATINUM MSI and 2 raptors. I game also so the load times w/ the raid 0 w/ the OS would help. I use 1 gig of ram so the swap file shouldn't be too much of an issue. If the raid 0 is w/ the OS would I be better off using the raid drives for my MMC functions or the ide drive?
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Well what is your pattern of usage? How do you use them? Generally the OS is the part of your system accessed the most and you'd want to have fastest drive used for OS. With recording TV shows, unless you do extreme stuff with them, most any hard drive can handle that. One example where you wouldn't need an OS to be on the fastest is it you had say a popular message forum (like a tiny brother of AT for example) stored as say a mySQL format. You'd want that on the fastest since the nessasary parts of OS would probably be mostly in RAM since you were doing only that one thing constantly.

If you are a heavy gamer, you'd more likely want the most intensive games on the fastest hard drive, it can take a few seconds more to boot but want shorter doom3 load times dangit! 🙂

Of course you could compromise. Put the OS on the fastest and use the remaining space for a couple of most placed heavy games, and some temp space to record TV shows on before you move them to other hard drive.

BTW, you do know that raid 0 increases your chance of catastrophic data loss right?
 
Thx. I apreciate the reply. Yeah I'll have to make sure my impotent files are backed up. I'm hoping w/ the raptors I'll be a bit safer. I have a bunch of the deathstars from IBM and had minor probs. Enough to make me reload and now I don't trust them.

I would like the OS on the raid 0 but thought that I'd be tieing up the bus if I tried recording to it too. And I don't want it choppy when I record/tivo at dvd quality. That was my main concern. And it's nice to have lower load times for the games.

Thx again.
 
Originally posted by: Argis
Thx. I apreciate the reply. Yeah I'll have to make sure my impotent files are backed up. I'm hoping w/ the raptors I'll be a bit safer. I have a bunch of the deathstars from IBM and had minor probs. Enough to make me reload and now I don't trust them.

I would like the OS on the raid 0 but thought that I'd be tieing up the bus if I tried recording to it too. And I don't want it choppy when I record/tivo at dvd quality. That was my main concern. And it's nice to have lower load times for the games.

Thx again.
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Those impotent files are key 😉

btw, nice deal on an awesome drive.
 
Originally posted by: Argis
I'm hoping w/ the raptors I'll be a bit safer.
I would like the OS on the raid 0 but thought that I'd be tieing up the bus if I tried recording to it too. And I don't want it choppy when I record/tivo at dvd quality. That was my main concern. And it's nice to have lower load times for the games.

Thx again.
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I was referring to raid 0 being the striping. And if you lose a drive in a stripe array, all your files are gone like that. 2 drives in a stripe array doubles your chances of losing all your data, regardless of manufacture.

 
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