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36gb WD 10k should i get it?

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trainguy77

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Nov 13, 2003
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I have found a WD 10k SATA 36gb drive for $90 CDN i might be able to talk him into a little less for it. Now currently I have a 160gb boot drive, and a 320gb data drive. Of the 160gb drive 39gb are used, but a good bit of that is applications. Is it worth the money? Would you suggest I make it the boot drive? I have 20gb of applications so the system is 19gb. Would it be better to make it the system then put the applications on one of the other drives? or should i put the applications on this 36gb 10k?

OR should i just not buy it? I wasn't in the market for a 10k until i saw it and thought maybe i should pick it up. Your thoughts? Does it help performance alot?
 
Yeah trick is this guy only has the 36 gb for this price. Only reason i am thinking of buying this 10k is because the price.:rolleyes:
 
Just out of curiosity, why would anyone get a 10k drive if they could just get 2 7200rpm drives and raid 0 them? Sure, the fail rate would be twice as much but it would be pretty cheap and the capacity would be much higher.
 
excalibur313 said:
Just out of curiosity, why would anyone get a 10k drive if they could just get 2 7200rpm drives and raid 0 them? Sure, the fail rate would be twice as much but it would be pretty cheap and the capacity would be much higher.
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Two reasons one, takes two drive bays. Second as you said twice the failure rate I personally think its not worth the trouble and risk. Also i don't like software raid makes things alot less versatile. When I do RAID I go hardware RAID or non at all.:p
 
Use it as the boot drive. I bought 2 36GB Raptors the day they came out on the retail market and configured them in a RAID 0. The speed, even with just one drive, is amazing coming from 7200RPM hard drives.
 
Raptor 10Ks are good, but it's never worth the extra cash, especially for 36GB.

I think you can get like 300-500GB hard drives with $90 now, and it's definitely worth more than having something that will find your data 4 seconds faster.

If you're a gamer, go for it, but make sure that you have a beefy HD for storing the games, and put save files on the 10K raptor.
 
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