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Raptor HOT! 150GB WD Raptor at Newegg for $249.99 - $50 MIR = $199.99 shipped / limit 2!

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Limit 2 drives per household

Good until August 13 (the rebate, that is).

Convenient, no payments or interest for 6 months on purchases of $500 or more with a Newegg Preferred account, so get your $100 in rebates back before paying them off! 😀
 
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY
 
Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY
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Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...

 
Originally posted by: AStar617
Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY
Click to expand...
Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...
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Yeah sadly for him RAID doesn't work like that, lol.

Personally I dream of a five disk RAID-5 array build on those 750GB seagate barracudas...3 Terabytes of data and redundancy to boot...and performance that would make your eyeballs bleed (it's second in file transfer rate only to the 150GB raptor...it's actually faster than the 74 and 36 raptors!).

Of course the RAID controller and the PCI bus would really be the limiting factor at that point. Hmm come to think of it...are there any good PCI-E Raid-5 cards? lol
 
Originally posted by: TekDemon
Originally posted by: AStar617
Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY
Click to expand...
Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...
Click to expand...

Yeah sadly for him RAID doesn't work like that, lol.

Personally I dream of a five disk RAID-5 array build on those 750GB seagate barracudas...3 Terabytes of data and redundancy to boot...and performance that would make your eyeballs bleed (it's second in file transfer rate only to the 150GB raptor...it's actually faster than the 74 and 36 raptors!).

Of course the RAID controller and the PCI bus would really be the limiting factor at that point. Hmm come to think of it...are there any good PCI-E Raid-5 cards? lol
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There has been, for a while now, 300 gig hard drives of different brands that can beat a raptor in file transfer (since before the 150 gig raptors existed) but latency matters too. Raptors can be faster at transfering 3 megabyte x 100 files than 1 x 300 megabyte file, which means windows/photoshop/games will still load faster on a raptor than a 7200 rpm drive. Plus, there are new revisions of raptors that are out now that are even faster (74 gigers).
 
how much faster will my boot in windows be if i normally take 1 full minute to boot from the time i press the start button till windows is done (with 1x150gb raptor) as compared to 2 of these in raid 0?
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
how much faster will my boot in windows be if i normally take 1 full minute to boot from the time i press the start button till windows is done (with 1x150gb raptor) as compared to 2 of these in raid 0?
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no noticeable difference
 
Newegg is charging almost $6 shipping now, not free.
But its still one of the best deals around if you want a raptor 150gig
 
Um your both wrong, you can raid 1 any drive to any drive as long as the mirror drive is as big or bigger, speed of the second drive makes absolutely no difference, i know i have done it.

so yes i would "raid 0+1" 3 drives, 150gb+150gb in raid 0 and that mirrored to single much slower 300gb IDE drive, NF4 motherboard can raid all the ide and sata channels, so it would be easy.
Originally posted by: TekDemon
Originally posted by: AStar617
Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY
Click to expand...
Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...
Click to expand...

Yeah sadly for him RAID doesn't work like that, lol.

Personally I dream of a five disk RAID-5 array build on those 750GB seagate barracudas...3 Terabytes of data and redundancy to boot...and performance that would make your eyeballs bleed (it's second in file transfer rate only to the 150GB raptor...it's actually faster than the 74 and 36 raptors!).

Of course the RAID controller and the PCI bus would really be the limiting factor at that point. Hmm come to think of it...are there any good PCI-E Raid-5 cards? lol
Click to expand...

 
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
how much faster will my boot in windows be if i normally take 1 full minute to boot from the time i press the start button till windows is done (with 1x150gb raptor) as compared to 2 of these in raid 0?
Click to expand...

no noticeable difference
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Correct, but if closely measured it is slower with the Raid than the single drive. the reason is that all files must get striped and pass through the Raid controller, That is an extra processing step. Small files such as an OS load do not get split up over the Raid , hence the Raiding of an OS partition creates a minor processing slowdown.

Use Raid 0 for very large files such as RAW photo images and video files
 
Tempting deal - the thing I'm concerned about are reports it's a louder drive than the WD Caviar or Seagate.

I'm tired of the background noise of the PC and would like to get rid of the noise.
 
i have one of the raptor 150gb's and a seagate 7200.7, i can't tell which is louder, both are as quiet as can be, seek can be heard only when my music isn't on and theres no other sound in my room.
sound/speed ratio is good
 
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