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Raptor Drive for Boot OR Storage?

tuartboy said:
I don't know what you mean by a smaller platter. Physical size is still 3.5". The platter density is 100Gb per platter on the hitachi. Unless the raptor has less than 1 platter, there is no way that it can have a smaller platter "size".
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The Raptors use a physically smaller diameter platter. Although the chassis is 3.5", the platter is considerably smaller in diameter than a typical 3.5" drive.

SCSI drives are used in servers and are made in order to be. They often are better manufactured and even come with 5 year warranty instead of the standard 3. Not sure about the raptor.
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The Raptor essentially IS a SCSI 10,000 RPM drive mechanism with IDE or SATA electronics bolted on.
 
AliensAreFuzzy said:
Go to versiontracker.com and look for Carbon Copy Cloner. You can make bootable copies of one disk onto another.
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don't get CCC ---- go with SUPER DUPER ------ much faster and just as stable
 
tuartboy said:
first, my point was to say that the raptor is 2 year old technology and that there are much better price/performance/size ratios out there. sure, seek times are <5, but apparently the 16 mg buffer does in fact make up much of that performance loss.

Don't forget that lower rpm drives also generate less heat and often have a longer life due to less wear and tear on the drive heads.

Also, I don't know what you do with your mac, but I use the heck out of mine. I started with a 1 gig HD in 1995 (huge at the time) and thought i would never fill it. Then I got a 13 gig. Then a 40. Then an 80. Then a 200. Now I have over 500 Gigs and I am going to need more here pretty soon in my desktop to store next semester's work. I'll admit, I do video and lots and lots of 1 gig + photoshop work, but I don't think I am that abonormal, maybe just faster at filling it.

Article is attached as requested.
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thanks a ton for the article!!!!! I really appreciate it!
 
Tuartboy, or others -

1. is the drive available for purchase as yet? Every retailer, that lists it, is sold out

2. the drive comes with a utility tool that can adjust its settings ----- any idea if that utility tool will work with Mac OS X?

thank you all!
 
Ikstej24 said:
The tests on the fastest 7200 rpm drives is out on barefeats.com. The fastest drives are still the Raptor and Maxtor drives. The new Hitachi still doesn't compare.

http://www.barefeats.com/hard48.html
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It scored head-to-head with the raptor in multiple tests. Amazing that any of those drives do considering the 2800 rpm difference.

Hitachi or not, I don't care. I don't own one, I just merely saw a great review. The real truth is that the raptor is aging technology and the newer 7200 series can keep up and have 8 times the capacity with futureproof specifications and technology. The price/size/speed factors are heavily against the raptor. It's just barely better for twice the cost/meg.
 
thank you all for all the speed test links and reviews!

I was all set to buy a 7k500, but I can't find any available anywhere

then I was about to get a Raptor, and compromise some boot drive room

however - I'm heartened by the Maxline III results ---- being a FCP person, the Quicktime test is what mattered most to me, and nothing came close to the MaxLine on that

Maxtor - you got a sale!

Thank you all, and BareFeats!
 
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