raptor

[rebith75]

Hey, sorry if this has been posted several times but cant find an outright answer, how much real world performance increase would I see (in gaming casual computer use) from 7200 rpm hitachi sata, thnks

 

[biostud]

a couple of secs in loading time, for general use nothing if you have enough memory.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

As biostud said, you'll shave off a couple seconds during loading time, but that's it. It's not worth the huge price tag.

 

[Mattd46612]

I just finished my first rig with a raptor in normal SATA1 setup. It might be me but is this thing really that loud? Or is my Gigabyte 3d Aurora that silent?

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: Mattd46612
I just finished my first rig with a raptor in normal SATA1 setup. It might be me but is this thing really that loud? Or is my Gigabyte 3d Aurora that silent?

That's normal; you don't get 10K RPMs for nuttin 😛

 

[Makaveli]

For seeking and writing the raptor is louder than 7200rpm drives, but idling its the same. make sure you have the raptor is a solid case which will help with the sound.

 

[Mattd46612]

Figured since its 10k its gonna be worse, not used to a silent case as I had so many fans in my last case, so really all i hear is the drives which sound like mini firework blasts at times

 

[twitchee2]

Well i had a seagate drive and it was VERY loud wiht seeking. so i got 2 raptors for raid 0 just for the hell of learning how to do it and so on. I found that desktop perforance is neglegable, but BF2 loads were almost twice as fast. i still agree its not worth the price permium but maybe the 150 gig is better. i dont know.

 

[insename2]

i've had my raptor for more than a year now and i can say that there is a notacible difference when navagating through your folders and certain load times