[Bumblebee]

Soo I got my new Raptor 10k hard drive... like a retard I pluged it in and tried to install windows on it with both hard drives connected... didnt work out too well in fact i somehow corupted the os on the old hard drive almost deleateing all my stuff, so then I had to reinstall windows on the old hard drive to get my files, then on the new hard drive seperatly. Tonight... I fail... :P

But that new raptor drive rocks, evvverything installs uber fast compared to the old 7200 rpm hard drive i got.

[Scroll_Lock88]

They are decently fast, but the WD black edition drives come so close to raptors in terms of overall performance that you could get two of the black edition drives, RAID them and have faster overall performance and still be either cheaper or just above the price of a single slower raptor drive not to mention have more drive capacity to boot. :P

This post has been edited by Scroll_Lock88: 14 February 2010 - 12:01 PM

[Stubs]

The real benefit of having a raptor as an operating drive is the fast access times, short-stroking a big drive can get you identical or better storage with better read/write and similar access times. Raid 2 short-stroked 1tb drives for bonus points.

[Bumblebee]

I have a friend that i went to kuwait with, he built a simular rig with the 920/x58 route and he got two raptor 10k hard drives and put them in raid. He recently emailed me there wasnt a huge leap in performance for the two in raid, said he was kinda dissapointed. But everything I do on windows 7 is like.. instant :)

[DarkShadow]

depends on how you actually raid a drive, if you use the shitty onboard, yeah you aren't going to get much performance, but when you tack on a nice controller into the mix your IO and general R/W speeds skyrocket.