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Corey0808

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Right now I'm running an AMD Barton 2500+ on an Abit NF7-S V2.0 motherboard. I'm trying to upgrade my computer piece by piece. I'm currently running one Western Digital 20Gb 2Mb cache drive, and another 8Gb, 2Mb cache Western Digital drive. I'm on a limited budget and would like to get SATA. Which drives should I get? Is there that much of a performance difference between a regular SATA and the 36.7GB Raptor? Thanks for the opinions.

 
yes, there is a nice difference between a regular SATA drive and a raptor. if drive space is an ussue(from seeing your 20g and 8g I guess not) then get a larger drive, otherwise get tha blazing fast raptor
 
Is there any need to save up and try and get the new raptor? I really don't use all that much drive space... but how about performance differences? Does it warrant paying double the price?
 
I would much rather save my money by buying a 120GB WD Special Edition hard drive from Fry's Electronics for only $60 after MiR. SATA has a neat cable but the burst rate NEVER goes beyond 100mb EXCEPT in a pure DOS environment.
 
While they have the fastest access times, it doesn't mean they'll be signifigantly faster than a 7200k HD with an 8mb cache. Buy the WD SE drive, it's cheaper, quieter and offers much more space per buck.
 
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