Raptor Decision...

[SickBeast]

Well guys,

I have a WD Raptor 36GB that I've been really disappointed with. I have not seen any tangible gains over my 120GB Maxtor. So, I'm left with two logical choices:

-buy another 36GB Raptor and RAID-0 them
-sell the Raptor I have and cut my losses

Which would you do in my situation? A new Raptor is totally within my budget, so that's not a problem. I'm pretty sure I would notice a very substantial boost in performance, but then again I thought the same thing before I bought the first Raptor.

Ideas?

 

[dababus]

buy another raptor and apply raid 0 mode on them. set the the card to 16k stripe.

format ntfs.

bench and you will get 101.0 mb/s of throughout put.

what controller card are you going to use.

I use promise fasttrack2plus 150, and i got 2x36 raptors in raid 0 mode.

 

[LED]

Choose between needed space vs performance and go from there...74Gig in Raid0 ain't much nowadays!

 

[SickBeast]

The controller is a Silicon Image 3112.

I don't think I'll need more than 72GB for high speed stuff. Thanks for the input, guys. 🙂

 

[darkswordsman17]

Well, I think you'd notice as much of a difference and have more space for the future if you just got two large SATA drives (160, 200, or 250 GB) and RAID them.

 

[Zebo]

Sell it raptors are the worst price/performance drives since SCSI. I don't know about you but I resent paying 200% more money for maybe 20% more performance as shown in anands revieiw of this drive.

 

[dudeman007]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Sell it raptors are the worst price/performance drives since SCSI. I don't know about you but I resent paying 200% more money for maybe 20% more performance as shown in anands revieiw of this drive.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: dudeman007

Originally posted by: Zebo
Sell it raptors are the worst price/performance drives since SCSI. I don't know about you but I resent paying 200% more money for maybe 20% more performance as shown in anands revieiw of this drive.

Yah you guys are right. The thing is, every time I ship a HD to someone, it gets there with bad sectors. I live in Canada, and I think the customs people run some X-rays through the things that can cause problems. Soooo...selling it will be difficult unless I can find a Canuck.

 

[caz67]

Hi.

I currently have 2 x74GB Raptors in RAID 0. To be honest they are fast, but too small for my needs. I went and purchased 2 250GB SATA Western Digitals. I do alot of photo editing, graphic design etc. The space of the 250's is better, and the performance difference is negilible IMO.