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sorry yes silly mistake still tiredjeo14888 said:you mean £300 is about $580.
sorry yes silly mistake still tiredjeo14888 said:you mean £300 is about $580.
j.venning said:Wow, not! Don't know why your so enthusiastic about it - just means that when it fails you loose more data.
j.venning said:Also, are we living in the past STILL! Whats with the 7,500RPM? IT SUCKS! Drive manufacturers shoud be focusing more on speed than capacities, why haven't they developed a 15,000RPM 1TB hard drive - they can do it so cheaply!
And the 7200 rpm is too slow for what? Sure 15000 rpm would be faster, but do you really need the extra speed?
Actually, the differences in performance are really not that great. I remember seeing benchmarks for various things with a Raptor vs. some 7200 RPM drive, and the difference was only a few FPS (games) / seconds (encoding) / points (3DMark, etc). So if you want to save a few seconds when copying files, go for it, but for normal users, an extra couple hundred dollars is not going to be worth it.j.venning said:Well yes really. If you put, say, a standard 10,000RPM Raptor in your build - you would probably notice a difference such as copying files etc and access times.
Considering that a majority of cheaper sub $1000 laptops have 4,200RPM or 5,400 drives and standard capacities of 120GB, if they doubled the size - couldn't they have 8,400RPM and 240GB easily?!
freestyler105 said:Actually, the differences in performance are really not that great. I remember seeing benchmarks for various things with a Raptor vs. some 7200 RPM drive, and the difference was only a few FPS (games) / seconds (encoding) / points (3DMark, etc). So if you want to save a few seconds when copying files, go for it, but for normal users, an extra couple hundred dollars is not going to be worth it.
Yeah, it really varies depending on the application.mammikoura said:true, it's not all about the speed the drive is spinning at. I think I even saw a test where hitachi deskstar (7200rpm) performed better (in most tests) than the 10000rpm raptor.
Trivium Nate said:I want one so bad!!!!
id get an external one
omg this si amazingly awesome!!!!