Posted: 12/21/2004 11:07:17 PM EDT
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I've been thinking about making the 10,000 rpm leap. anyone have/use one of these drives? review pros or cons? Chris |
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Well, I have heard good and bad things about that brand. But then I have heard that about every major HDD maker. So if you get it at a good price from a QUALITY place I say buy it. But if you are moving up from just 7200rpm I doubt you will notice a large increase unless you deal with some seriously large files. Sgtar15 PS I received the package today...thanks very much.....not sure how I will use it yet |
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why dont you make the 15k leap? SCSI Ultra320. check this site out for reviews storagereview.com |
I've heard some good and bad on WD too. but the 10,000 RPM from my 5400 RPM and going from a 900 Mhz processor to a 3.0 gig should help too.  I hope it'll scream LOLIt's been 5 years, time to update, but wondering if the price jump is worth the coin The only thing lacking in this 900Mhz box to make it the worst box ever, is my old dial up modem.  Chris |
| I've got the 74GB Raptor. It seems pretty quiet, it loads heavy duty games up much faster and even windows itself comes up from a cold boot in around 20 seconds. I've had mine for 3 months without a problem, but that's not too long. They also have a 5 or 10 year warranty on the things so they should be quality made. |
too much of a price jump. trying to get a good video card too. at this point in time, not an option.  thanks Chris |
If you plan on playing games then your most important piece of equipement is the viideo card. You will get results and value from the video than anything else., you will need at least a 128DDR card to run todays games....they are way more advanced then you think. SGtar15 |
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www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1543 that's the video card I have to add also. hope it will mix well with the other stuff . zzzzzzzzzooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmChris |
RAID 0 my man. Increases your read/write times and also allows the OS to see your 2 drives as 1 partition without any loss in storage space. The big drawback is if you lose 2 of the drives all your data is gone because it is written accross both drives, but the performance boost is worth it. Just keep good backups and you are good to go. |
I've found that it is the exact opposite. The drives with the faster spindles don't necessarily have faster sequential read speeds that help with large files. The faster rotation speed helps much more with small sizes because there's less latency due to waiting on data to rotate under the head.z |
hell yeah, might have to start saving again for that . I sure don't have the coin right now for raid 0 Chris |
THREAD HIJACK ALERT: How do you install the OS and TIVO software on them? PM if need be. |
Damn hijackers  actually that's a good question too Chris |
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I have used the WD Raptor 36 Gig for over a year with no problems. I use it for the OS and for programs, everything else is shunted over to one of the big hard drives. Using the SATA cables and the Raptor there is a big increase in speed. And as it's been pointed out going to a RAID 0 give another boost in speed. |
+1, I've got the ~76GB raptor and I think it's a fantastic drive. Not big enough, however.... I need a new storage drive... maybe something in a terabyte. |
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