Dual Boot Negatively Effects Performance?

Steve The Egg · Jan 17, 2008

If I set a Raptor to dual boot xp and vista, will that negatively effect its performance. Also, besides the obvious difference in storage, is there any difference between these drives... performance wise.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136035

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136012

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136034

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136033

Some of them are pretty similar but the prices very greatly. Does the little window they put on the new one do anything for performance? Will buying a smaller drive (in terms of storage) yield better performance? Like 36 vs. 74 vs. 150.

Automata · Jan 17, 2008

Well, I don't see any differences between the first 4 except for the Raptor X, which has a window, and the last link, which is a smaller drive.

Honestly, I would buy none of those drives. Pick up a pair of the new 7200.11 Seagate drives and you will have around 200mb/sec read and close to raptor access times in a RAID0. Not worth it IMHO.

The larger the drive, the faster it would read/write/seek because it is on a more dense platter.

Steve The Egg · Jan 17, 2008

But what about 2 RAID'ed raptors? eh?

Mr.Guvernment · Jan 17, 2008

well yes but your price just double and then you could get 3 7200.11 and beat the raptors except in perhaps seek times...

Steve The Egg · Jan 17, 2008

Ok...well I could buy 5 250GB Seagates for the price of 2 150GB raptors.

How would the performance stack up? the 5 seagates vs. the 2 raptors? Also is it practical to have 5 hdd's?

Mr.Guvernment · Jan 18, 2008

it is pratical but now your asking for alotmore chance of failure in a raid 0 set up.

if you bought 5 what i wouodl do is

2 in raid 0 - windows / games et cetera
2 in raid 1 - documents / backups
1 drive as a regular drive for downloads and stuff

Steve The Egg · Jan 21, 2008

Mr.Guvernment said:
it is pratical but now your asking for alotmore chance of failure in a raid 0 set up.

if you bought 5 what i wouodl do is

2 in raid 0 - windows / games et cetera
2 in raid 1 - documents / backups
1 drive as a regular drive for downloads and stuff

What about an Matrix Raid? I think I can do 0+5... That way I can slice out the fastest part of the hard drives for my RAID 0, and leave the rest to RAID 5. Will I notice a boost in performance? I am mainly looking for a boost in OS and game load times in Xp SP2.

Mr.Guvernment · Jan 22, 2008

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