subjective performance of velociraptor

[TC91]

Would a velociraptor have a more "snappy" feel when compared to another drive such as the recent wd 640gb caviar hard drive?


Thanks

 

[mpilchfamily]

It should eb a faster drive thus resulting in slightly faster load times and boot times.

 

[fpsdean]

Originally posted by: TC91
Would a velociraptor have a more "snappy" feel when compared to another drive such as the recent wd 640gb caviar hard drive?


Thanks

I own a velociraptor. It's a very fast drive... I was surprised how fast windows installed on it, and it keeps load times short, but it's more of a luxury for a gaming system than a requirement -- your load times will decrease, but it won't effect the playability of (well designed) games.

That said if you want a 750gb or 1TB drive, the Western Digital Black Edition or RE3 if you want a server-tested drive are very fast as well. In the review I read, the new RE3 1TB drive tested just behind the Velociraptor in most tests.

 

[dawza]

I have two Vista 64 systems with very comparable CPUs, motherboards, memory, etc, each of which initially used the 6400AAKS as a boot drive, and later, velociraptors (one with a 150GB, and the other with a 300GB version). The most noticeable improvement with the VRs is reduced application loading time, and performance when simultaneously accessing different programs and files across the same drive. Opening programs that have not been cached to RAM is pretty much instantaneous with the velociraptors, compared to the 6400AAKS.

I agree that they are a luxury; still, the enhanced responsiveness of the system was of sufficient significance to justify the cost (for me).

 

[TC91]

thanks for the replies, right now i am running a single 640gb wd caviar as the boot drive, my seagate 500gb drive (it was only used for storage) died on me unfortunately, but a thought hit me about considering the 150gb vraptor (~215cdn) and grabbing another 640gb drive for storage so i wondering if it would be a good idea to go that route. Another option would be grabbing a terabyte drive for storage and keeping hte 640gb drive as is for the main boot drive.

Thanks again

 

[Phew]

I have a 300GB VR, and it's snappy, but if you care about space at all, you might want to look at the new 1TB WD drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136313

It is actually within 15% of the VR in read/write speed, and costs like a quarter as much per GB. I only use like 70 GB right now, so I went with the VR, but that 1TB drive is impressive.

 

[mooseracing]

If you want snappy and noticeable improvment step up to SAS drives.

 

[TC91]

hmm okay thanks for the replies, i think i will grab the 150gb version and see how it goes.

thanks