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Got me a WD Raptor, 10000 RPM
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I read that the read/write speeds are equal comparing a 10krmp drive with 8MB buffer to the new 'slower' 250/300GB SATA drives with 16MB buffer... since I need allso big storage I guess I'm more in the market for one of those...
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neut said:
Better yet SuperDuper! I stopped using Carbon Copy Clowner (CCC) when I searched the web for a better utility than CCC for the Mac. That's because I found SuperDuper!. I use SuperDuper! all the time to make a complete bootable backup of my system. Everything is copied but a few temporary files you don't need anyway. It works much better then the old school CCC.
Here is the link:http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
The shareware version lets you do as many full system copies as you want and never expires. Hope it helps.
Windowlicker
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Orf course the other issue that one must keep in mind with the Western Digital Raptor Drives is that it is in fact a Western Digital Drive.
At this point I wouldn't buy a drive made by Western Digital. Too many odd issuesas well as early drive failures.
At this point I wouldn't buy a drive made by Western Digital. Too many odd issuesas well as early drive failures.
neut
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Bear said:
the only problems i ever had with a hard drive was a seagate 10,000. original SCISI from a dual 450 G4. that drive was fast, but it lasted less than two years. it gave out the night before our CD release party and kicked back on one more time for the show. 😀 ... then it died forever. 🙁
i've gone bought/installed many 5,400 and 7,200 drives from multiple manufacturers. all have been good to me. 🙂
i think that extra 2,700 rpm stresses the machanics quite a bit.
peace.
So does the 10,000 rpm hard drive really make a big difference in general use? I do a lot of stuff on my DP 1.8Ghz G5, and was considering buying a 74GB 10,000 rpm drive. Does the OS boot up much faster?
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I was thinking about a new 20 GB HD for music, and a 36 GB HD is perfect - and at this speed I'll reinstall XP (a bitch to do - call up Microsoft???) and it will be lightning fast.
io_burn said:
Hate to burst your bubble there buddy, but it was proven, on a number of websites, that running RAID-0 has practically little improvement when running games. See Anandtech's article here:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101&p=11
Let me just pull a quick quote out:
"If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer. The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the reduction in reliability, thanks to a halving of the mean time between failure, makes RAID-0 far from worth it on the desktop."
Back in the day, RAID-0 was worth it. I even had a RAID-0 setup. Now drives are fast enough that 1 drive is far better.