Raptor...Still worth it?

[balane]

Not at all. The Placebo affect is what people place on the slower drives who wish to deny the Raptor its advantage. An ~8mb per second average increase in data transfer is sizable. 8,500,000+ extra bytes of data being transfered every second of operation is going to be felt by the user when he is either loading a large application, opening a large file or playing a game which loads large amounts of data.

Only a complete dullard would not recognize the difference in Oblivion when new area is loading while walking outdoors. It's a clear and objective improvement in this game in particular.

But as I stated this is only a comparison of these two particular drives and could easily be showing that the 320GB Barracuda is slower than the Raptor, not that the Raptor is faster than any other specific drive. I'm not biased towards the Raptor in any way, but it is faster than the specific drive it replaced.

 

[Dacalo]

Recent WD 750GB drives are just as fast if not faster than the Raptors, with 5x the capacity for almost the same price.

 

[balane]

If I hadn't got such a good deal on the RaptorX I definitely would have went with a high capacity 32mb drive. I must admit, I do like looking at the drive do its thing through the window.

 

[JFree]

The fastest HDD you can get is worth it. The faster the drive the better your application (and OS) cold startup performance will be.

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: JFree
The fastest HDD you can get is worth it. The faster the drive the better your application (and OS) cold startup performance will be.

Welcome to the forums, and a great first post! :thumbsup:

 

[postmortemIA]

Fastest does not equal highest sequential read speed, 72MBs and 8ms latency>> 72MBs and 13ms latency