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MC_Renzy
Fearless Paladin
Joined: 04 Nov 2001
Posts: 226
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What's the fastest Serial ATA hard drive on the market right now? Is it the Raptor 10,000rpm? I don't want to spend more then $220 Canadian and the drive size can't be any smaller then 20gigs. I was thinking of the 36.6 gig raptor but I want to make sure it's the fastest drive for loading games and copying files. Are there any updated benchmarks comparing the top contenders? Thanks for any info. |
Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:42 am |
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Moriendor
Black Ring Leader
Joined: 19 Jul 2001
Posts: 1306
Location: Germany |
Yes, the Raptor does generally seem to be the fastest SATA HD that money can buy. I have read several reviews and seen comparative benchmarks (sorry, no link handy right now... try Google or watch the "Hardware Reviews" section on www.bluesnews.com for a few days - a review of the Raptor is bound to appear sooner or later  ).
The Raptor was sometimes outperformed by other drives in a few special benchmarks but it was always the fastest in transfer ratio and access times. Some 7.2rpm drives seem to be catching up though (the new Samsung HD 160JJ seems to be pretty damn fast, too).
If I would consider my HD as a bottleneck (I'm not... it's an IDE WD 80GB w/ 8MB cache that gets the job done reasonably fast and I'm not a movie freak so don't have to transfer too much data anyway  ) then I'd buy a Raptor right away. Definitely seems to be the best HD for PC at this time and the 5-year warranty from WD is quite comforting, too, IMHO because a 10rpm drive sure sounds like accidents might happen *g*  . |
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:02 am |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
I donīt think a Raptor is worth the money. A carefully selected standard HDD is also quite fast and has a much better price/performance ratio.
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