Originally posted by: Burner127
Originally posted by: maluckey
Let's see.....
During an intense game how much difference does the speed of the HDD drive mean? That's right!! Nada. Spend the $$ where it matters...CPU/GPU/RAM/Mobo/HDD/DVD almost always in that order for maximum gaming pleasure.
Spending 150 bucks extra to save 2 seconds of initial load time, versus a faster vid card and virtually infinite storage is good for...?
Got over 1GB RAM and a 256 MB vid card? Save the $$ and only replace the drive you have if it's dead. By the time you need a drive, buy the middle fo the line unit which is certainly faster than the one it replaces.
Just my 2 cents worth.
DING DING DING DING!!!!!
This man is correct!
Ok, so you buy a Raptor 150 and you can boot up faster, umm, whoopie do?
You can load game levels a bit faster than someone who doesn't have one, another Whoopie do?
Once you get in the game, the HDD is pretty much no longer in the equation. Buying CPU/RAM/Video card is a much better investment.
And to all of you who think RAID0 is such a great idea--it also has been proven time and time again that it does NOTHING to aid in gaming/overall PC performance. It is also way to risky to use for putting games on it as well--don't cry to me when you have spent 400 hours playing a game and you stored it on a RAID0 and the array or one of the drives dies! Make sure you back up consistantly all you RAID 0 lovers!
$300 for 150GB, no thanks. I picked up a 500GB Seagate w/5 year warranty for $285 shipped! I would rather have oodles of space for "stuff" than a fast as balls drive.