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Confusednewbie1552

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Can you notice a difference between the 10,000 rpm raptops and the 7,200 rpms other hard drives? If so what do you notice the difference in (for example Burning, playing games, listening to music, etc.
 
Not 100% sure on this but I believe faster spinning drives help out the seek times more than anything. This would probably affect everyday use to some extent but I'm pretty certain that it wouldn't be a night or day difference.
 
As people have said before, upgrade other things before your HD such as ram, processor, graphics card, etc. There will be a difference in boot time, loading in games, and stuff like that but its not a huge difference, it's just nice to have if you've got the money to spare.
 
I agree. You will see a small performance increase in booting and game loadtimes, but the 10k rpm drives are not too big, so you won't have all your stuff on one. The rest will go normal speed.
 
Yeah definetly don't go for the raptor if its going to be your only drive unless you don't download anything, it'll fill up really quick otherwise 😛. I bought a raptor to use as my OS/apps drive to replace my current os/apps drive (a 5400 rpm 80gb drive) so it will serve nicely as an upgrade. I keep all my other stuff in a 160 gb drive and also eventually in my old os drive when I move everything over.
 
Originally posted by: Confusednewbie1552
Can you notice a difference between the 10,000 rpm raptops and the 7,200 rpms other hard drives? If so what do you notice the difference in (for example Burning, playing games, listening to music, etc.
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A lot depends on which Raptor you are purchasing. The 36Gb WD360 gets about the same read speeds as my Maxtor ATA133 drive but the Random access speeds on the WD360 are about 40% faster. Not that 4ms is noticable except in benches. If you go with a Raid0 and the WD740 then it is a whole different story. This configuration is only matched by SCSI Ultra320 drives. With the Raptor you would be limited to the 74Gb max of the drives.
 
I burn all my music to a cd then delete them from my computer (unless they're a real favorite in which case there might be 50 songs at most on my hard drive. I keep some pictures on my hard drive but never over 1 gig worth. I'll be keeping Windows Xp Home (later 64 bit edition) and Linux (either Mandrake, Suse, or Gentoo). i'll also have maybe 3 games at a time on my hard drive (games like Half Life 2, Halo PC, and Neverwinternights). I won't be keeping more than 3 gigs of movies on my hdd. I was thinking to get a 74 GB Raptor or a 80 GB Sata Segate. I just need to know the speed. I have enough money to spare for this hard drive but if it doesn't offer much performance I'm better off saving it up for some stuff.
 
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