March 31, 200817 yr This drive is as fast as a Raptor. Great performance, great price. Didn't want this one to get past you guys. THE TECH REPORT.com Western Digital's Caviar SE16 640GB hard drive New platters for the sweet spot by Geoff Gasior ? 1:15 AM on March 25, 2008 http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380 Sharkyextreme.com February Hard Drive Price Guide February 27, 2008 Serial ATA Hard Drives The 640GB drive isn't in there, but it'll give you an idea of the value/performance ratio. http://www.sharkyextreme.com/guides/article.php/10704_3730751__2 NEWEGG.com Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://members.cox.net/ehidalgo/WD_640GB.jpg
March 31, 200817 yr no money thx to the army, have to wait for travel vouchers to go through before i even think about it
April 1, 200817 yr the raptor is 10000 rpm,so wouldn't that make it a hair faster still? thats what i was thinking, the raptors have to be faster
April 1, 200817 yr Author It has to do with platter density. Even though it doesn't spin as fast the head has to travel less, this equates to better file transfering, so that equals faster speeds. If you look at the review in the link above you can see the test results for your selves.
April 1, 200817 yr Even though everyone wants a 10,000RPM drive, the majority of new 500GB+ drive are faster than the raptors. Raptors do have a faster acess time by about 4ms, and a faster windows boot by a few seconds. Otherwise, they have fell behind new drives. http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html
April 4, 200817 yr im thinking about grabbing two of these and running raid 5 oh so tempting Unless you already have one, you can't run RAID 5. You need 3 or more drives.
April 4, 200817 yr Unless you already have one, you can't run RAID 5. You need 3 or more drives. I have 2x 500gbs So I would use the extra 140gbs on each as just a regular partition
April 4, 200817 yr I have 2x 500gbs So I would use the extra 140gbs on each as just a regular partition Only some RAID controllers let you use "leftover" space. My MB has a 6 port SATA RAID controller, and it won't let me use the spare space from my 2 320s and 2 500s
April 4, 200817 yr I have 2x 500gbs So I would use the extra 140gbs on each as just a regular partition You need 3 "physical" drives to run a RAID 5 configuration.
April 4, 200817 yr You need 3 "physical" drives to run a RAID 5 configuration. He's saying he'd use his 2 existing 500s and 2 new 640s in a single RAID 5 array.
April 5, 200817 yr He's saying he'd use his 2 existing 500s and 2 new 640s in a single RAID 5 array. ya if I get 2 more 500s that gives me 1.5tbs which is good but to expand Id need to buy a second raid card and more drives so it gets pricy and the 750gb drives now are the same price per gb as the 500s i cant decide what to do
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