NoodleGTS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-322-_-Product

Saw this deal and almost bought a second one for RAID. Great price and free shipping to boot.

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sccr64472

I think you made the right choice by holding off unless you do huge file transfers. These are still simply the fastest mechanical hard drives for a desktop, but you'd be better off buying a single SSD for gaming/general pc use. Again, disregard the above if you do a lot of file sharing/file transfers.

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Comp #3: Aspire 600W, ASUS P5K, E6850, 4 gb G Skill, Creative Labs 5.1 speakers, 22" Gateway LCD, Chenming Mid Tower, Liteon DVDRW,Asus 4890, 500 gb Maxtor,Zalman 9700, Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer,74 gb Raptor.

Comp #4: 22" Acer LCD,Raptor 150, Big Typhoon, Gigabyte DS3, 4gb G. Skill,Intel E6750, Antec P180, Antec TruePower 550w,Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic,Liteon DVDRW, 8800GTS 512

NoodleGTS

I don't do a lot of huge transfers so nothing to worry about. Once my case is finished I'm just going to set up my spare 250GB barracuda as a storage drive and be set.

I just thought I would post this for anyone who wants a fast boot drive but for whom SSDs are out of reach money wise. I've seen a huge improvement in load speeds over my old 7,200 rpm drives in RAID with just a single Velociraptor.

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Core i7 Overclocking Analysis in Games

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[Project]"My Cosmos S looks like a car!" | [Project] Striker Girlfriend
DELL Studio XPS 16: Core 2 Duo 3.07GHz, 4GB DDR2 1067, ATI Radeon 4670, 500GB 7.2k RPM HDD

valtopps

179.99 is the cheapest i ever seen it. 300gb at 10k rpm are one of the best hdd out there. thats all i used to build my own personal computers. loved them, now i just bought a little intel ssd. waiting for it to come in.

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xToaDx

I thought the Seagate 1.5TB drive was faster than these, if you made it a 300GB partition?
Here's a link no HDTune shots though, that I saw, so maybe he's just full of crap.

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tipsycoma

Meh, still you're better off getting an SSD and a cheap WD or Seagate for storage.

valtopps

sure if you dont care about speed. but a ssd and a 300gb vr is king of speed.

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NoodleGTS

Guys SSDs are very expensive. If you want 300GB this is the fastest non SSD drive you can get, and it's a pretty awesome price.

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DELL Studio XPS 16: Core 2 Duo 3.07GHz, 4GB DDR2 1067, ATI Radeon 4670, 500GB 7.2k RPM HDD

D3TH.GRUNT

wow that is cheap I love my velociraptor, these things are amazing.