Freshly raided Raptors :)

freeagent · May 24, 2008

I just recived my second raptor 150 in the mail yesterday!! Woohoo! So.. After about 4 hours of trying to get my SD Card to act as a floppy, I gave up.. :bang head

Instead I slipstreamed the drivers into my copy of XP, lol I should have done that in the first place.. Anyways, today I got it all setup the way I like it, except for my desktop pic :beer:

I tried Matrix raid with my old 250 gig wd's, it was fun, but the arrays never lasted for me

These are much better I think

I started giggleing when XP started to dump its setup files, it went by pretty quick.. :drool:

Nebulous · May 25, 2008

Noice, verrrrry noice! Those suckers seem to be flying fast! :thup:

Are they noisy? I had a pair of raptors raided and tho they were extremely fast, they were quite on the noisy side.

zbo · May 25, 2008

Thats fast. Are you using a dedicated RAID controller for them?

As Nebulous says how loud are they? I like fast - but I also like quiet

MadMan007 · May 25, 2008

When I had my Raptors they were soft-mounted in the Antec P180 drive mounts and really weren't all that loud especially once inside the case. With a cheap case and hard-mounted they might be a lot noisier.

freeagent · May 25, 2008

Heyya guys, sorry for the delay! They arent noisy at all, actually it seems now that they are paired up, they are quieter :screwy:

But that could be because i cant hear much over the fans i have spread out all over the place lol!

As for a dedicated card, no sir, im just useing the board

Nebulous · May 25, 2008

Ahh. Well way back I used to have high CFM fans so all I heard was the fans. Once I started to eliminate the noise I started hearing the drives

I was trying all kinds of experiments to quiet them down, but it just got anoying so I went back to normal drives in raid and got rid of the raptors.

Sure would be nice to get a pair of raptors and raid them, providing of course if WD invented something to make them silent.

freeagent · May 25, 2008

At the worst, it sounds like a coffee perc beside you, and thats only 1 drive

2 seems quieter for some reason.. but for the platters spinning, and noises like that, you dont hear it at all

UBB · May 25, 2008

zbo said:
As Nebulous says how loud are they? I like fast - but I also like quiet

I have some ADFD raptor's in raid-0 and they make a good grunt, definitely not quiet (my fans are very quiet, though). I even have rubber grommets between each screw hole, which doesn't seem to help at all. I found that to really make the grunt go away laying them freely, unmounted on some soft tubing or something works VERY well. The difference was like night and day. Tubing was all I had laying around, but you get the idea. I never got around to making something more elegant/permanent.

Hope this helps.

freeagent · May 25, 2008

UBB said:
I have some ADFD raptor's in raid-0 and they make a good grunt, definitely not quiet (my fans are very quiet, though). I even have rubber grommets between each screw hole, which doesn't seem to help at all. I found that to really make the grunt go away laying them freely, unmounted on some soft tubing or something works VERY well. The difference was like night and day. Tubing was all I had laying around, but you get the idea. I never got around to making something more elegant/permanent.

Hope this helps.

ahh, you just got me thinking.. the drive cage, and adapter used to make it work with my case has rubber washer type things isolateing the cage from the tower.. maybe thats why they are quiet

Shiggity · May 25, 2008

raided raptors just sounds so gewd

nice performance freeagent!

freeagent · May 25, 2008

Thanks!

Man, if you can swing another one, id say do it. since they are cheap! I thought 1 raptor was great.. 2 is almost obscene in comparison

Shiggity · May 25, 2008

I've never done a raid =D

but i'll most likely use a raid 0 or raid 5 when I get enough money for some storage drives

silencer51 · May 25, 2008

I don't know about you guys, but I love the Raptor's seeking noise... Compared to most drives their 'crunching' seeking noise is very old school

But then I was never a 'silent computing' kind of guy...

DOHCrazy · May 27, 2008

freeagent said:
Instead I slipstreamed the drivers into my copy of XP, lol I should have done that in the first place

Do you have a link to a guide to slipstreaming things into the windows install?

freeagent · May 27, 2008

Sure, Here you go

onegin · May 27, 2008

Da Velociraptor

As per the other thread, it is finally available on Newegg for $300, cheaper than 2x150Gb raptors... I've read somewhere that the performance of the velociraptor is better than 2xOldRaptor, can you guys confirm it?

MadMan007 · May 27, 2008

Shiggity said:
raided raptors just sounds so gewd

nice performance freeagent!

silencer51 said:
I don't know about you guys, but I love the Raptor's seeking noise... Compared to most drives their 'crunching' seeking noise is very old school

But then I was never a 'silent computing' kind of guy...

Haha I'm not the only one

I kind of like some heavy duty seek noises in a way even though I like quiet computing too. It's kind of like the drives are saying 'Yea I'm here kicking ***, whatcha gonna do about it??!'

freeagent · May 27, 2008

i know what you guys mean, im a fan too :beer:

as soon as something touches the disk, it unleashes its savageness. compared to my other drives, i guess thats its way of saying rawr :attn:

tbenst · May 29, 2008

Wow, how is your burst speed at 3500 MB/s !?! My RAID 0 150 raptors clock in with a 227 MB/s burst (HD Tach). Am I missing something?

silencer51 · May 29, 2008

Intel Matrix Raid ftw

With write-back cache enabled in the Matrix Storage console, most benches report 2800-3500mb/s burst speed... A gimmick, but cool nonetheless

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