WD RAPTOR (SATA HD ) ?

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  1. brnr

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    Thinking of buying one of these and was wondering if anyone here had any feedback on them ...pros and cons ....thanks
     
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    Pro's extremely good performance. Con's way overpriced per megabyte. If your motherboard is based on the nF4 chipset with the onboard SATA II controller then you can buy two SATA II hard drives (for about the cost of a single Raptor) and put them in a Raid 0 (stripped array) and best a single Raptor by a large margin in performance and have a 500GB drive to boot. Now you can buy multiple Raptors and put them in a Raid 0 array on the nF4 controller and have even higher throughput, but that is VERY expensive.

    So it depends on your wallet and desire to have THE very best.
     
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    Raptors are not coming down in price just making them bigger.But they are sweet with 16MB Buffer.
     
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    I've been using them on one of my PC's for about a year.
    Had one failure out of the 2 74GB drives, this was replaced by WD within a week.
    Slighty noisy compared to other drives when working hard.
    As for speed, there are very very quick, have mine in raid 0 140Gb.
     
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    I like my Raptor, going to get another next year & have them set up for high speed, I read somewhere that you get about 50% increase in speed. Nice!


    It is expensive, but I like it.
     
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    Too expensive/noisy/hot for the small 74GB or whatever.
    I use Maxtors with 16MB cache, and WD SATA-II with 16MB cache, you can get 300GB for same money (and it's nice fast drive also).
    But Raptor's sweet, would be nice for Boot Partition (OS files) and then, big 7200RPM drives for storage...
    Note: current generation Raptors are only SATA-150 w/ 8MB cache
    L8R
     
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