Is the WD Raptor worth it?

[SlingXShot]

It is worth over standard 7200 RPM WD Drive.

[SlingXShot]

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[TalvaranRW]

From what I hear it is much faster if you are not concerned with the amount of space you lose.

[fiji]

if you like really fast load times it would be-- but for me , its not really that important

bud i sure wouldnt be complaining if i had 2 striped ehehe

[tom10167]

For that money I'd much rather have a larger drive.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by tom10167
For that money I'd much rather have a larger drive.
True if you dont need a faster drive I would spend my money on a larger drive.

[oRIDDLERo]

Originally posted by SlingXShot
It is worth over standard 7200 RPM WD Drive.

I just sold my two wd 80gb 8mb (raid zero) (used for operating system and program installation partitions) and bought two raptors to replace them in raid o. I am VERY happy with the swap. I only wish i could afford the new larger raptors they are OWNING the HD benchmark scene from what i have seen so far.

As for the size issue get another drive something slower for your archives and backup purposes (i use a pair of 200gb seagate 7200's for all that stuff

[mateo]

I'm not on Raptors, but 15k SCSI (yeah, so I splurged :D ), and the pure feel of these things is incredible. It's definitely worth it, and I don't see what all the beef is about storage, its not like they're 18 GB disks, and I don't think that you could seriously push even that for an OS and program disk, or for most of your files, for that matter (media aside).

[Jojo1971]

For that money I'd much rather have a larger drive.

if you want to see good numbers in benchmarks, get it... otherwise spend your $$$ on a larger hard drive...

personally i didnt see a big difference between my WD raptors RAID-0 and my bigger WD HDDs with 8mb cache....BUT ive seen a big difference between a fragmented HD and freshly defragmented one..:)