Fellas,
I have an older 74GB 10k RPM Raptor hard disk drive running as my OS drive - and 2-200GB Seagate Barracudas in RAID 0 for apps and a newer WD Black 1TB drive for data.
My question is about the Raptor - this thing was great in it's time, but now it's old technology - should I keep this as my OS drive or just take it out and use the Raid 0 array for the OS - or even the Caviar Black drive?
The Raptor in benchmarks that I've done only beats the other 2 drive in seek time - everything else the Caviar and even the Seagates smoke it.
The reason I've stuck with the Raptor as the OS drive for so long is for the low seek times - I know the OS needs to find many small files in many different places, so it helps with that.
Some thoughts and recommendations would be cool - thanks!
olimazi
I have an older 74GB 10k RPM Raptor hard disk drive running as my OS drive - and 2-200GB Seagate Barracudas in RAID 0 for apps and a newer WD Black 1TB drive for data.
My question is about the Raptor - this thing was great in it's time, but now it's old technology - should I keep this as my OS drive or just take it out and use the Raid 0 array for the OS - or even the Caviar Black drive?
The Raptor in benchmarks that I've done only beats the other 2 drive in seek time - everything else the Caviar and even the Seagates smoke it.
The reason I've stuck with the Raptor as the OS drive for so long is for the low seek times - I know the OS needs to find many small files in many different places, so it helps with that.
Some thoughts and recommendations would be cool - thanks!
olimazi