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post #11 of 15
8/26/06 at 11:49am
I got a 150gb raptor

Pro's - Fast Fast Fast

Con's - Expensive and because of the spin speed they are quite noisey
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post #12 of 15
9/2/06 at 2:10am
As far as PATA/SATA drives are concerned, the Raptor is the King for gaming. But they now have a 15,000k SCSI 73gig hdd. With seek times down to 3.2ms, your games or productivity would fly! Very good write up nonetheless.
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post #13 of 15
10/3/06 at 2:07pm
Yeah, but if you thought the Raptors were expensive.... don't even bother lookin up the 15000 rpm SCSI drives!
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post #14 of 15
10/9/06 at 10:42am
My old WD raptors setup was 2 x 74gb 8mb cache in a raid 0. I sold that setup to buy 4 x 36gb 16mb cache version in a raid 0 thinking it would perform much better. In my opinion it has not. See Chozart HD benchmarks under HD section. I wish I would have just move to 2 x 150gb raptors instead.
But having these HD does help with quick map loading in many games like BF2.
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post #15 of 15
10/27/06 at 6:28am
Boot times.My system only need half bar to load Winows,To me that's speed.In games im always the first to load any game.
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