10,000 RPM Hard Drives

[WhiteZero]

I'm going to be picking up a Western Digital Raptor drive soon. It'll be SATA and 10,000 RPM.

I'm just wondering if anyone else around here has recently made the switch from 7200 to 10,000, and how big of a difference in load time (both games and applications) speed that they have noticed?

 

[Asus]

I have had a Raptor for a while now. Upgraded from a WD caviar 7200RPM 80GB drive as my OS drive.

Loads very fast and same with games. Windows boot time is very quick currently.

Windows boot time may vary depending on your board or what SATA controller chip it uses because of the extra time for initialization. I noticed a big jump in boot time when I went from my nForce2 (AthlonXP) to my nForce3 (Athlon64), both of which I had used the Raptor drive. My nForce2 used a different chip for the SATA which I think was the reason why.

 

[StainlessJ-FPGA]

Which raptor do you have though? I was checking benchmarks and the 2nd gen raptor(one I'm getting) shows a lot more performance over the 1st gen. In fact, the 1st gen isn't much faster than current gen 7200 rpm drives. This is why I decided to get the 2nd gen raptor instead of the 1st gen. Initially I was going to get the 1st gen because I don't need 74gb of space and 36 would have been enough, but I'm getting a raptor for performance so why bother if it isn't faster? 2nd gen is the one to get.

 

[WhiteZero]

Which raptor do you have though? I was checking benchmarks and the 2nd gen raptor(one I'm getting) shows a lot more performance over the 1st gen. In fact, the 1st gen isn't much faster than current gen 7200 rpm drives. This is why I decided to get the 2nd gen raptor instead of the 1st gen. Initially I was going to get the 1st gen because I don't need 74gb of space and 36 would have been enough, but I'm getting a raptor for performance so why bother if it isn't faster? 2nd gen is the one to get.

Thats for the tip. It's about $70 more, but if it's alot faster, then cool.

 

[Spartan]

I had the first Raptor for a while, but it broke down pretty quickly.

 

[StainlessJ-FPGA]

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2073

Benchmarks for both raptors vs current gen 7200's vs old ones.

 

[WhiteZero]

Now those are some tasty benches.
I wish they had more, such as: defrag time, Windows load times, Windows install times, etc.
Oh well, still good stuff.

 

[WhiteZero]

Also, dose anyone know where there are some benchmarks comparing the Raports in and out of Raid 0?