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Time to upgrade... I think.

arcenite

arcenite

Lifer
I have apprx 300 dollars to spend on my rig (or something else). You can see my rig stats in my profile, but I was wondering if there'd be a better upgrade than what i've decided on...

Adaptec SATA Raid Controller (or a Promise card)
and of course... yep.. you guessed it..

2x WD Raptors...

Is this what I should go for?

Thanks.
Bill
 
I think raptors are over rated....sustained transfer is only 62mb/s (not better than leading 7200RPM ATA100 drives) and 8.5ms seek time. That seek time not even as good as my OLD 9.1GB ultrastars get in HD tach....

Get a cool SCSI raid controller and 2 36GB SCSI drives (all used) and you will actually have an impressive....more reliable and same cost disk system. The used 36GB drives you get wil still have a good two years warranty left anyways!
 
StorageReview had pretty good things to say about the Raptor... LINK

"WD's drive, however, delivers single-user performance that matches and even exceeds not only 10k RPM SCSI but also that of 15k RPM units. It is the answer to many years of prayers from power-users and enthusiasts worldwide."
 
While the raptors are pretty swank, IMO, you'd be best served by either saving the money or possibly getting scsi. What will you be using these raided Raptors for? Just storage? If just storage, that would be waste of money. Id say get a scsi card, a "pimp" 15k drive like a Fujitsu MAS, and then use the 120GB drive for storage.
 
I got 2 Raptors on HighPoint RAID 1520 and whle in Windows XP drives are pretty fast, I installed the system on this array and boot time is horrendous, like 3 minutes, has something to do with how XP views SATA RAID controllers. Never was a problem with previous setup - 2 Deathstars on onboard AMI 100 in Iwill KA266-R
 
Having upgraded from SCSI to a aptor, I'm not terribly impressed with it either. There's something in the smooth acquisition of data that was lost. Occasional glitches in playback, say, that I didn't have before. It's not as bad as I make it sound (I'm way overly critical), but it is there. The disadvantages of SCSI:
Spin up time
Sound (canstant spinning)
I'd agree with the recommendation for a new CPU.
 
I disagree about the CPU you would see absolutley NO performance gain with a new CPU unless you went high end P4 for athlon 64
 
Originally posted by: Johnbear007
I disagree about the CPU you would see absolutley NO performance gain with a new CPU unless you went high end P4 for athlon 64
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I was thinking the same thing... My plan was to use the raptors for the OS and applications...

Thanks for all of your replies!

Bill

Edit: Also, it seems cheaper to me to go with 2x Raptors and a RAID SATA card than to go scsi...
 
For Os/apps you will see a better boost by going with a single raptor vs 2 in a Raid 0 array. Raid 0 is designed for large file transfers, loading of os/apps takes longer on raid vs a single drive.
 
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