I'm thinking of getting one and was wondering your thoughts on the matter. Worth it? Not worth it? Tell me what you think. I saw one at Newegg that I was interested in.
If you can afford it then it is worth it, the speed is above what you get from 7200 drives. When you consider that the main bottle neck in a system is the hard drive then any improvement helps. The only trouble I found is that when using the 74GB Raptors, I had 3 disk failures within 18 months, this was not a problem with the 5 year warranty, but when 5 years is up, and it’s probably worth selling them on before they die. You need good cooling in the system, as they run hotter, and the noise level is higher when working, but that doesn't bother me. P.S> my system is on 24/7 which increases the usage time, but this is weighed against the problems of continually heating and cooling hardware and the stress that causes.
Interesting. I never thought of the bottle neck issue, but that makes total sense. Have you experienced better performance by switching to the 150GB drives that you now have? Dude, that's a monster system that you! What do you use it for primarily? Games? Video editing?
Hi, No performance increase at all, in fact most tests I've run show a slight descrease in performance over the 74's. I mainly changed for the size gain, plus whilst I had another rma replacement sealed it made it easier to sell them on before the warranty ran out. The system is mainly used to video editing/conversion, photo editing and then gaming, but I like to play games at the best settings I can. My favourite part is the case, definately the best I've ever had, and certainly a talking point when people see it. Next upgrade will be when the G80 nvidia gpu's are out later in the year, they should have support for directX 10.
