[mchammer9111]

I have the 150GB raptor HDD and I ran Ashampoo on the drive and compared it to my regular 300GB WD drive which is 7200RPM and an unknown amount of cache.

First pic is the 300GB drive.

This is the raptor....... Is it a bad drive?
I have ran the test a few times with similar results....

 

[the3lement]

The drive might be getting too-hot or starting to die. What does HDTune say the hard drive health is

 

[the_beast]

Is the Raptor your OS drive?

 

[mchammer9111]

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_beast Is the Raptor your OS drive?

yes it is.

 

[sdla4ever]

this is my raptor with my OS on it

 

[the_beast]

The drops are likely caused by the OS accessing the drive during the test. Probably no cause for concern.

 

[tagurtoast]

wait are you guys talkin boout velociraptors or raptors

 

[the_beast]

Raptor X I believe. The model isn't the issue (in my mind at least), it is the dips in the transfer rate that concern the OP.

 

[mchammer9111]

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_beast Raptor X I believe. The model isn't the issue (in my mind at least), it is the dips in the transfer rate that concern the OP.

Well I was concerned about the overall speed also. A friend of mine has a WD caviar black 1TB drive and he is getting much higher transfer rates. His drive is also his OS drive.

 

[the_beast]

The Raptor's are not great for transfer rates - the newest 7200rpm high capacity drives are faster in this respect.

The advantage of the Raptor is the low access times, which is the main reason they are great for OS use.