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Western Digital Caviar Vs. Raptor?

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Xeon

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Hello everyone,

I'm bulding a new box and I'd like to get some feedback on some of the new drives that are available.

I've been a die hard SCSI drive purchaser in the past but I'm reading some good things concerning some of the ATA drives that are now being produced.

As far as I can tell the WD Caviar and Raptor seem to be the leaders in this arena and so I'd like to get your feedback on which of these drives you would recommend.

I like the fact that the Caviar are larger so the price per GB is a very good value. But I'm not stuck on this as being the primary goal of the drive I choose. Speed is more important but I'd like to hear from those of you who have first hand experience with both drives. If the Caviar is nearly as fast and you don't see that much of an improvement from a speed standpoint using the Raptor, I may decide to go with the Caviar.

Any and all feedback is welcome.

Xeon
 
the raptor smokes the caviar. blows it out of the water in terms of speed. however, it is a lot more expensive ($ per GB). therefore, if you think you really need some fast seek times or load times (if you're a gamer etc.) then i'd go for the raptor. the caviars are pretty speedy but they dont touch the raptors. you might want to think about waiting until the new 73GB raptors show up
 
Simple here,

Space - go for caviar

Speed - go for Raptor.

I use a raptor and an older IBM 120GXP, the raptor is for windows and programs and the IBM is for general data. This works well for me as it means I don't need a huge primary drive. But still I can't wait till the bigger raptors..
 
Originally posted by: orion7144
When the 73 gig raptor's come out they will also introduce a SATA Cavier 7200rpm JB series drive.
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They already have them. They are the "jd" series.
 
the raptor smokes the caviar. blows it out of the water in terms of speed

I have 2 raptor in raid 0, and they are much faster/lower seek times than anything out there [ide].


Of course if you are going with one drive, then the only difference you will notice is seek times, I have a 8m cache maxtor that benched about the same as 1 raptor sata, with no noticable differnce between the 2.
 
I have both in my system, and the Caviar actually benches higher (Sandra, PCMark). There's more to it than speed, I mean what are you using it for? I dunno, I know my MoBo has some issues, but I'm still swearing off WD after this build; going back to Seagates.
 
Two Raptors in RAID 0 here. There smoooooookin' (like my exact benchmark specs?) But i can tell you, getting the OS on the SATA RAID was a pain in the.... uh neck yea.

It's just that my CD that came with my comp didn't have the TEXT.OEM file that it needed to install the drivers, but i didnt have the OS on there so i had to fresh install on an extra 80gigger i was going to install later then DL the drivers, burn a CD, then format the drive (80gigger) and ughhhhh finnaly make the proper boot disk and get the drivers i needed to get the drive recognized on my comp. Then install the OS on the RAID arr what a pain.

But it was on an P4C800 delx. now the include the TEXT.OEM, guess thats what i get for buying new stuff before there's hardly any reviews out there for it.
 
I had a WD JB drive and switched to a Raptor. I hoped that games would load faster, but did not notice much of a difference. What I did notice was installing programs is much much faster, and so is defragmenting, running virus scans and my windows cleaning program (wash and go).
I am definately happy with the upgrade, but my goal of loading games faster did not really happen.
 
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: orion7144
When the 73 gig raptor's come out they will also introduce a SATA Cavier 7200rpm JB series drive.
Click to expand...

They already have them. They are the "jd" series.
Click to expand...

If you were to read the post I even Highlited SATA. They just released their first SATA drive that is 7200RPM and it is the 250gig one.
 
Oh. I'm sorry. I thought you meant like the 2 Western Digital 120Gb SATA drives( Western Digital 120GB SATA WD1200JD 7,200 RPM 8MB) I have in my system. I have had them for two months and they come in 250Gb, 200Gb, and 120Gb.
 
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