Opinions about Raptor Drive

[Capper]

eh, I've used 74GB and 150GB Raptors as single drives and in RAID 0....the difference really isn't great, and the prices and overall storage space really make it a waste of money.
On one hand you have a 10K drive, with SATA I features (8MB cache, 1.5GB/s) vs newer SATA II drives (16 MB cache, SATA 3.0 GB/S)....
Personally, i think the best drive made is Seagate's 750 GB SATA II HDD

[Blondie]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

It's a buddy of mine selling it. It's 3 months old. I already have two WD2500KS drives. I've had them in Raid 0, but there wasn't enough of a performance increase for the things I do to warrant the possible data loss by running a Raid 0 config.

I was thinking of putting the Raptor as my OS drive only, but now I don't think I'll mess with it. I have this WD2500KS in two partitions, one 100Gb for the OS and related apps and the other part for games. I then have a second HDD, a SATA Maxtor, installed with another 120GB of space. Then there's my 1Tb Lacie external FW800 drive. So I don't really *need* this Raptor drive. The Raptor whine would probably drive me nuts anyway.

Thanks folks.

I bought used raptors, never again. We spent so much time trying to diagnose a problem, turned out to be bad drives. Guess they busted in shipping.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

It's a buddy of mine selling it. It's 3 months old. I already have two WD2500KS drives. I've had them in Raid 0, but there wasn't enough of a performance increase for the things I do to warrant the possible data loss by running a Raid 0 config.

I dunno how you guys end up breaking your RAIDs... but even then I don't think a Raptor is worth it. Like I say often (now that i've had fun with tons of HDDs) it looks real good in benchmarks but it changes little to nothing in real world performance.
The Raptors aren't very loud IMO. Personally I hate Seagate new line seeking noise, it makes a very annoying screech like sound. You know, a screech with a high frequency or something.
At any rate, I don't think the little performance boost a Raptor brings over a normal 3GB/16mb SATA drive is worth the money.