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Lonewolf5460:
I did not know that ill try dig up that review on the WD black drives that compared them directly to the Raptors I am not sure if the Velociraptors were included on the test or not.
NaRu:
--- Quote from: Lonewolf5460 on May 13, 2011, 01:11:07 AM ---You cant get a warranty replacement on that drive?
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I did get mine replaced. Im still using my second one. I got the 1TB drive because I rather have more system storage for games and software instead of the speed. I only see the different when booting. Once everything loads everything is fast.
--- Quote from: Lonewolf5460 on May 13, 2011, 01:23:59 AM ---I did not know that ill try dig up that review on the WD black drives that compared them directly to the Raptors I am not sure if the Velociraptors were included on the test or not.
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The fasted raptor drive is the 640GB drive with a max speed of 135MB/s and it cost $290. The drive I got was Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS which its max speed is 108MB/s. Which cost me $90
Lonewolf5460:
I was talking about the older ones I did not even know they made a 640 gig one what is the point of it it is barley 30% faster than the black and it is 3x the price with less storage that is insane. I will look into them just because I am curious of its practicality.
Edit
Hmm I may get one of these to dual boot and use it as a testbed of sorts I want to mess around with windows server 2008 before I start my classes back next year, it is re certified but that wont matter for my uses.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136744
Freedom Kira:
The Velociraptor is a good medium between the expensive but fast SSD and the cheap but slow 7200RPM HDD. It may be more expensive than a regular 7200RPM drive, but it is still cheaper than an SSD with the same capacity. I got my 240GB SSD on sale, and even that was $410 CAD.
Oh, forgot to mention. Never use an SSD simply for storage - that is a huge waste. With an SSD you want to minimize writes to prolong the SSD's life, since they are limited to 10 000 write cycles or so. That is, unless you want to store data on there and never delete it and want fast access to it, then by all means do it, but I still think the performance is better used for programs.
Burkingam:
remember it's 10k writes cycles for each sectors, not 10k total. Otherwise it would die really really fast. But it's still problematic for some programs.
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