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New HDD RAPTOR. 1st time.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Slysoft on October 18, 2009, 05:46:16 PM ---Raptor drives aren't worth the cost unless you're loaded. All it will do is lower your boot time from 20 seconds to 10 seconds, and cost 3-4x more. Also since they are still moving parts, the raptors die faster because they work harder. If you're in the market for fast drives, go ssd. It's the way of the future.
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Link ... I'm not understanding anything your saying.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Slysoft on October 18, 2009, 05:46:16 PM ---Raptor drives are no longer worth the cost unless you're loaded. All it will do is lower your boot time from 20 seconds to 10 seconds, and cost 3-4x more. Also since they are still moving parts, the raptors die faster because they work harder. If you're in the market for fast drives, go ssd. It's the way of the future.
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Fix'd ;)
But yes. 100 bucks for a 73GB isn't too bad since SSD is still higher in price. But seriously, don't bother with any higher. Not cost effective. Spend the extra on lower speed HDDs to store your stuff.
Drew:
I wouldn't buy into to the SSD craze just yet. The disks are still too small, have too many problems, and are way too expensive. Wait a few years. I wouldn't get a Raptor either. They're over-priced, and a lot of Green or 7200rpm drives get close enough performance-wise, in addition to being 4 to 12 times larger.
Get one of the 1TB or 1.5TB drives. You won't regret it.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Drew on October 18, 2009, 06:12:53 PM ---I wouldn't buy into to the SSD craze just yet. The disks are still too small, have too many problems, and are way too expensive. Wait a few years. I wouldn't get a Raptor either. They're over-priced, and a lot of Green or 7200rpm drives get close enough performance-wise, in addition to being 4 to 12 times larger.
Get one of the 1TB or 1.5TB drives. You won't regret it.
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I'll just do that since I'm hearing about all these crazy things. Save myself some money, get more space.
Natheria:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 18, 2009, 05:58:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: Slysoft on October 18, 2009, 05:46:16 PM ---Raptor drives aren't worth the cost unless you're loaded. All it will do is lower your boot time from 20 seconds to 10 seconds, and cost 3-4x more. Also since they are still moving parts, the raptors die faster because they work harder. If you're in the market for fast drives, go ssd. It's the way of the future.
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Link ... I'm not understanding anything your saying.
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SSD is a Solid State Drive. It's really like a big flash drive and is as Sly said 'the way of the future' since it has no moving parts and can read/write a hell of a lot faster than any HDD. The tech is still relatively new however, a lot more money per gig, and still have some bugs in the tech they need to work on (the biggest one being that write times get a lot slower once you fill the drive up and then it has to re-write huge 512k blocks of memory every time you want to change a small 4k Word document).
The raptors really aren't worth the money anymore. I would just settle for a cheaper 7200rpm model with more space like everyone else said and stay away from the 10-15k's. I'm going to be using a 500gig Barracuda 7200.12 i was using for storage on my old machine for my new boot drive and later buy 1.5TB drives for storage.
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