Raptors are for...

[Makaveli]

Dravisher I agree with u %100 percent. I believe the raptor has SCSI class reliablity and if u have the money why not buy it. There is alot of hate for raptors these days don't know why. But anyways you best bet would be to use a raptor and see how u like it. I for one wouldn't go back to a regular 7200 for my OS drive

 

[TGS]

If you want SCSI with TCQ like performance, then buy a raptor with a NCQ controller. If you don't care about access times and raw drive I/O then a raptor is pointless.

If you have to ask to probably fall into the latter category. Just grab something with a high data density, and enjoy the extra space.

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Hrm... Most Anandtech forum neffers are people who like bang for the buck parts. Raptors are expensive for the small performance boost that you gain.

Exactly. A big premium for a small performance increase. And questionable reliability, based on my more recent experience wth WD.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Raptor is outdated ok.

We're at the point where regular HDs (7200.8, Maxline3) will kick @$$ compared to the Raptor. THe next gen raptors are due out sometime in Q4, so just be patient.

 

[TGS]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Raptor is outdated ok.

We're at the point where regular HDs (7200.8, Maxline3) will kick @$$ compared to the Raptor. THe next gen raptors are due out sometime in Q4, so just be patient.

Raptor

vs.

Maxline III

Strange, ye old raptor trounces the Maxline III.... everywhere.... save for perhaps heat and noise. Which is accounted for in the fact the Raptor is spinning at 10K RPMs over the MaxlineIIIs 7200RPMs

Edit: Basically it comes down to these few things.

1) Do you need space over speed?

2) Do you need speed over space?

3) Can you find a drive that compromises a little of either to suit your needs?



For me, I think I would have opted for the MaxlineIII myself. It's close enough in single user performance, and I get about three times the space.

 

[5LiterMustang]

Originally posted by: QuantumPion
OMG, I had to write this entire post over again. The forums said I used a censored word, although I didn't, and it crashed causing me to lose everything. So lame. Anyway,

Why is it so fashionable to bash maxtor these days? I remember back in the day when maxtor's (and quantum's) were the premium, and WD were the trash drives that were failure prone. I've been using maxtors exclusively (until my newest box which has a raptor) and I've never had so much as 1 bad sector, let alone a failed drive. My previous box had 2 cheap maxtor's in raid 0 and they worked perfectly for nearly 3 years. Before that I was running them individually for over a year. Before that I had two other maxtor drives which had at least 2 years of use before selling them.

As a computer tech support guy at my university, just about every failed hard drive I encountered was a WD in an oem machine. I suspect everyone bashing maxtor saying "oh I had 20 maxtor drives and 19 of them failed but I had 1 WD drive that has worked for 30 years!" are just full of it.

For a while starting with their first 7200rpm drives the western digitals were HORRIBLE...has that changed any?

 

[TGS]

If Hitachi can turn around the deathstar label, anythings possible...

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Frackal
I always get the attack chopper first in BF2 because I'm always the first into the map.

true true, Raptors win games of BF2 especially maps like Zatar Wetlands--load first, grab the jet, and bail over the center flag. hold that flag = teh win. yes i'm a whore.