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taylorolsen11 · Mar 2, 2009

hey guys i am getting a new hard drive and im stuck between a bunch of drives
i want either
2 40gb regular raptors in raid 0 with a 1 western digital black caviar 1tb
1 80gb welociraptor with 650gb western digital caviar black
40gb raptor with 150gb raptor x

i CANNOT make up my my please help

CharlieCS · Mar 2, 2009

How about 2 640 gb
WD blacks in raid 0 ?

e6600 · Mar 2, 2009

2 640gb AALS in raid 1 or 0

rseven · Mar 2, 2009

:welcome to the OCF, taylorolsen11!

Yes, the RAID would be a lot more quiet than a noisy Raptor.

R7 :beer:

Aynjell · Mar 2, 2009

Velociraptors are barely noisy at all. I can tell tehy're there but they're nothing like the older raptors.

rseven · Mar 2, 2009

Aynjell said:
Velociraptors are barely noisy at all. I can tell tehy're there but they're nothing like the older raptors.

I stand corrected. I have only used the noisy old ones.

R7 :beer:

EarthDog · Mar 2, 2009

taylorolsen11 said:
hey guys i am getting a new hard drive and im stuck between a bunch of drives
i want either
2 40gb regular raptors in raid 0 with a 1 western digital black caviar 1tb
1 80gb welociraptor with 650gb western digital caviar black
40gb raptor with 150gb raptor x

i CANNOT make up my my please help

Maybe I am missing something here...if so, Im sorry.

1. I never heard of any 40Gb raptors......There was/is 74gb/150gb/300GB
2. I assume you are rounding up....for some reason on your second choice option.

EDIT: Ok, wait the only 36Gb raptors..... aha ha!

Ok here is what I would do. Most any new 32mb cache drive is going to beat out the old raptors (36gb/74gb 16 mb cache). Dont worry about those.

I would get one Velociraptor, one WD Caviar Black for backups/storage.

EDIT2: wow...

There are no 74GB Velociraptors.... they are 150gb and 300GB respectively.

Aynjell · Mar 2, 2009

rseven said:
I stand corrected. I have only used the noisy old ones.

R7

HDtaching an old raptor sounds like dropping beads into a metal shute. Hdtaching a new VR sounds like the same situation except you use sand and you've got a blanket on the outside of the shute. It's smaller noise, and it's muffled.

Aynjell · Mar 2, 2009

Caligula420 said:
Maybe I am missing something here...if so, Im sorry.

1. I never heard of any 40Gb raptors......There was/is 74gb/150gb/300GB
2. I assume you are rounding up....for some reason on your second choice option.

EDIT: Ok, wait the only 36Gb raptors..... aha ha!

Ok here is what I would do. Most any new 32mb cache drive is going to beat out the old raptors (36gb/74gb 16 mb cache). Dont worry about those.

I would get one Velociraptor, one WD Caviar Black for backups/storage.

EDIT2: wow...

There are no 74GB Velociraptors.... they are 150gb and 300GB respectively.

Actually, therei s.

EarthDog · Mar 2, 2009

There are 74GB Velociraptors?

DarkFury · Mar 2, 2009

those were the old school Velociraptors before the release of the 300;s

EarthDog · Mar 2, 2009

Learn something new every day!

Badbonji · Mar 2, 2009

My two 150gb raptors (old) are not noisy at all, can't even hear them over my case fans lol

Rich'[ard] · Mar 2, 2009

maybe your case fans are loud? :santa:

you'd get the most storage out of 1 40gb raptor and a 1tb storage drive.
most performance out of either the 2nd or 3rd choice.

how about 2 WD 640GB blacks in raid 0? that's a lot faster than one single velociraptor

EarthDog · Mar 2, 2009

My RaptorX I can hear over my case fans..(low)...

Man, I must be a stickler for accuracy. I borderline harass one member b/c he had impossible clockspeeds fora PGU in his sig, and here I am bugging out over the 40GB and 80GB raptors!!!!

tuskenraider · Mar 2, 2009

There are 36,74,80(Dell OEM),150 and 160(Dell OEM)GB Raptors.

There are 74, 80(Dell OEM), 150, 160(Dell OEM) and 300GB VelociRaptors.

Get a VelociRaptor and a WD black for storage.

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