Velociraptor?

[Blain]

Here's a thought...

* Buy a 640GB WD "Black" with 32MB cache (2 platters)
* Partition off the outer 200GB for your OS & Apps.

= Nice fast, cool running HD for $80

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: fyleow
I'd recommend maxing out memory first if you have not already.

Check out Anandtech's real world testing of the Velociraptor. http://www.anandtech.com/stora...howdoc.aspx?i=3291&p=8

The Velociraptor loaded Company of Heroes a whopping 1.17 seconds quicker compared to the WD Blue.

On the other hand if your real world usage is extracting a 5 GB archive while running a full virus scan at the same time then the Velociraptor or SSD would definitely be worth it. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...owdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=15

It all comes down to your usage pattern.

Good post and :thumbsup: for bolded

 

[TC91]

Originally posted by: Blain
Here's a thought...

* Buy a 640GB WD "Black" with 32MB cache (2 platters)
* Partition off the outer 200GB for your OS & Apps.

= Nice fast, cool running HD for $80

Just a question, do all of the WD Black models use different platters? like the 500gb vs 640gb vs 1tb

 

[Blain]

640 = 2
1TB = 3

The 500GB versions may have less platter density, I'm not sure.

 

[Tweakin]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi

Originally posted by: TC91

If say you short stroked that raid 0 setup to say about 200-300gb total space, would that make up for the slower access times, or is it just not possible for 7200rpm drives to make up for their slower rpms?

I just setup my 3x RAID 0 with the "old" WD640AAKS - it smokes average 280.8 MB/sec . It is short stroked to 640 MB - not all that short LOL. Bet you that four of those 7200.12's, short stroked to even 500GB would be up well over 300 MB/SEC . How fast is a single velociraptor? Looks like average around 100 MB/sec

That might be...but look at your access times. Most 3 drive RAID's with normal 7200 drives average 12-14ms...a vr is in the 7-8ms range. I'll take the access time over the throughput.