Purchasing Hard Drive

[updawg]

I'm looking for opinions on hard drives, I was interested in buying WD Raptor 150 GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136011

16mb Cache
10,000 RPM

The price is a bit high maybe i'll catch it on a sale over the summer.

Anyone have any advice on purchasing a similar drive with fast seek/write times?

Mike

 

[Nitestick]

you won't find a similar drive unless you want to fork out for SCSI which i highly doubt you will. you don't really need a raptor unless you are running a server or are really, REALLY picky on performance. i would advise sticking to a standard 7200rpm drive of a larger capacity if you don't fit either category

 

[updawg]

I am picky on performance and I hear they're ultra fast in a raid 0 setup but price definitely outweighs performance, how do they compare with 7200rpm HD? I even see you have WD Raptor 36gb

 

[updawg]

BTW this is for a computer I'm putting together over the summer not to swap into a current setup.

 

[Nitestick]

well they perform a reasonable amount better than 7200rpm but it really comes down to preference. i was prepared to pay the price for the extra bit of performance i could get. whereas most people would probably benefit from just a larger standard drive. so really it is up to you. i'll put it this way, a friend of mine just setup a RAID 0 array (granted with some old 10gb hdd's) but my raptor apparently had almost double the performance of his RAID 0.

 

[updawg]

Do you think it would best suite me to get two 74 GB WD Raptors and run them raid 0 array? and then just a standard 7200rpm hd for my media?

 

[tehdigit]

quite frankly unless you are hardcore computer tech and you have a lot of experience with different hard drives and computers you wont really notice a whole lot of difference betweeen 7200 and 10000. sure there is difference but it just isnt really worth it if its just for ****in media

 

[RicoDirenzo]

quite frankly unless you are hardcore computer tech and you have a lot of experience with different hard drives and computers you wont really notice a whole lot of difference betweeen 7200 and 10000. sure there is difference but it just isnt really worth it if its just for ****in media

Completely wrong! Even in a single drive setup, the OS and Exe file response with a raptor is instantly recognizable. I have two raptors in RAID 0..........I will never go back to a 7200RPM drive ever again. It is a huge performance difference. Doesn't profoundly affect gaming, in my opinion, but my other puters with 7200's in RAID 0 are like running in sand!!

 

[ulater6000]

If you can afford a 10k RPM HDD, then go ahead and get it.

 

[tehdigit]

like i saiddd

if you dont have experience with the harddrives your not gonna know the difference.

but sure if you have mad money to throw down go get it

i for one dont and wont complain about my cute 7200

ps. i run fast in sand