Raptor Hard Drives

Millsie

Millsie

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Hey Forum.

I want to free up some money to get some new hard drivers.

I've got two raptor hard drives at the moment, both 150GB one new model and the other a older model.

So I've been out of the hard drive world for awhile now and I don't even know where to search for hard drive specs I've been looking at tomshardware but I really would like some opinions.

I'm currently a student so I don't have loads of money so I'm curious what hard drives are faster than Raptors? I read somewhere awhile back that some big hard drives are better than raptors(Please correct me if I'm wrong)
(Those Samsung F3's look nice, haha)

Thanks for your time! =]
 
Do what I do with 2 raptors, run them in RAID 0, but save everything important onto that 320gb drive.

Raid 1 is mirrored, meaning that whatever data written to drive 0 is written to drive 1, in case one drive dies, you have the back up.


Raid 0 uses spans data across both drives, making them appear as one drive. This is faster than RAID1.

I would install certain games on the Raptors in raid 0, but make sure you copy the save games folder over to the storage drive. But the bulk of your apps and other bits should be installed on the storage drive.






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Ah! No wonder I hadn't gotten any replys!
The idea is that I'm thinking of selling my Raptors and hopefully buying a faster larger drive(I've currently got one raptor set up as C and the other as a games drive)

My actual question is are there any larger drives that are faster than raptors(Non raided)
 
I hate benches, but it is pretty accurate:

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html

your hard drive model is

WD1500HLFS

a 500GB Samsung F3 is

HD502HJ

the Samsung F3 is faster than a SINGLE 150GiB velociraptor and larger and cheaper

You really won't be seeing much, if any, difference though, except for benches. The only massive upgrade you will see is if you go to a solid state drive, which wouldn't be a bad investment. Although they are expensive, the performance boost they give for load times, boot times etc are incredible, much better than an equally priced upgrade of another component. Whether you would have the money though to get a solid state drive for programs/OS and a second storage drive would depend on your budget and how much you would be willing to drop on your system
 
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Aastii said:
I hate benches, but it is pretty accurate:

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html

your hard drive model is

WD1500HLFS

a 500GB Samsung F3 is

HD502HJ

the Samsung F3 is faster than a SINGLE 150GiB velociraptor and larger and cheaper

You really won't be seeing much, if any, difference though, except for benches. The only massive upgrade you will see is if you go to a solid state drive, which wouldn't be a bad investment. Although they are expensive, the performance boost they give for load times, boot times etc are incredible, much better than an equally priced upgrade of another component. Whether you would have the money though to get a solid state drive for programs/OS and a second storage drive would depend on your budget and how much you would be willing to drop on your system
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Woah thanks =]
Mhmm, yeah I was thinking that. Maybe give it a year for Solid state drives... Little bit too expensive! Right so that sorts it, I think I'll try to sell my raptors and pick up a few Samsung F3 1TB Hard drives they're bloody cheap at $100 a pop.
 
Millsie said:
Woah thanks =]
Mhmm, yeah I was thinking that. Maybe give it a year for Solid state drives... Little bit too expensive! Right so that sorts it, I think I'll try to sell my raptors and pick up a few Samsung F3 1TB Hard drives they're bloody cheap at $100 a pop.
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They are brilliant drives. Not only do they perform better than their competators, but they are cheaper than them too. Look at the price difference between a samsung F3 and a WD caviar black of the same size, yet the WD doesn't have the speed that the Samsung does. It isn't like the Samsungs are any less unreliable either
 
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