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Old 11-10-03, 04:10 PM Thread Starter   #1
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Upgrade from Seagate 7200rpm --> Raptor worthwhile?


Have had an 80GB Seagate 7200rpm ATA-100 drive since last September. Would popping in a single 34GB 10k Raptor, for use as boot disk + storage for most commonly used items, give a noticable speed boost?

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There would definitely be a speed boost using a 10,000RPM drive compared to a 7,200RPM drive. It's also a good idea to have 2 separate drives in a system so you can store your data separately, that way when you reinstall you don’t have to backup to 30 CDRs every time.

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could just as easily partition a single drive and save the money
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Partitioning a drive will incure slowdowns and such. Yes you can just format part of the drive but still a pain when its partitioned. The only reasons I can think of to partition a drive is, OS's (more then 1), Big Drives (120+ partitioned into a movie/music/data drive), or if you working on a project and its going to get big partitioning a drive so you can work on it without everything else on the drive becoming defragged.

You'd notice the speed increase thats for sure expecially if its just a 2mb 80gig you got. Windows will open quicker, programs load quicker, and all that other good stuff will open noticbly quicker on the drive. Besides that a nice shinny 5 year warrenty

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Raptor owners really love their drives. There was a poll conducted by Ed, and most Raptor users said that they believe they are worth the extra money.

I noticed some improvement when going from 7200 RPM 2 MB cache to 7200 RPM with 8MB cache. So as others have stated, 10K Raptors should give you noticable change.
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Like wait I said in may other threads I know I'll be upgrading to a 74gb raptor when it comes out. Since im just using a 60 gig 2mb cache for my main drive its slow after a while loading stuff onto it. Use to be able to boot quick. Now its slowing down to the point where a nice fast drive would help considerably.

My position behind a 10,000RPM drive is that if you got the extra cash (yet 3 times the price of a harddrive of equal size) its nice to have the preformance and also with a 5 year warrenty slapped onto that too.

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