Perhaps the Raptors have gotten alot better. I owned a 36GB Raptor, and found that my 250GB WD drive was just as quick when it came to just about everything, so I sold it.Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: SickBeast
The Raptors are overrated IMO. If you get a top performing 7,200RPM SATA drive, you will barely notice a difference between it and the Raptor. Not only that, but the faster 7,200 drives outperform the Raptors in quite a few areas.
Wrong, and I'm willing to bet that you've never actually had a personal system with a new 7200rpm drive and a raptor. My new machine that I built loads everything slower than my old machine (both are fairly speedy machines, but the newer one definitely has the better components (sans the HDD)). The HDDs being used on the two machines are a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB (OS is partitioned off) and a 74GB Raptor.
The differences are why a 150GB Raptor is being delivered to me today from NewEgg .
I agree completely on this. It is also why I have a 150 GB Raptor and 4x 500 GB Seagates going into my new rig. The Seagates will be RAID 5 on a dedicated RAID card (Promise SuperTrak EX8350).
The Raptors are too expensive. How long does it take to load windows with the 150GB version?