What would you do with a Raptor?

PaiN · 12-11-11, 08:49 PM

A friend of mine gave me a new 160gb WD Raptor(nice guy, eh

). I'm not sure what to do with it. I currently run a pair of WD Blacks in RAID 0 as my main partition with the OS, data and games, back-up to a 1Tb drive and downloads to a USB HD.
I'm not sure if the Raptor would do best as a dedicated OS drive or if I should just plunk it in as space for games?
What would you do with it...?

**zoomy942** · 12-12-11, 01:40 AM

Do you have HD videos? Streaming them off a raptor would be very smooth. Or perhaps setup virtual machines on it for experiments?

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PaiN · 12-12-11, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by zoomy942

Do you have HD videos? Streaming them off a raptor would be very smooth. Or perhaps setup virtual machines on it for experiments?

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I don't watch HD off my PC or do "experiments" I'd need a virtual PC for.
I guess what I'm asking is if this Raptor would be significantly faster serving the OS than the RAID0 is? Would it be worth going through a reinstall and a minor rebuild to get the OS on the Raptor?

**Destroy** · 12-12-11, 09:29 AM

Use it in a retro rig to run older games that prefer/demand older hardware.

ViN86 · 12-12-11, 09:31 AM

*cough* sell it *cough*

I mean, with your current storage situation, the Raptor doesn't really fit anywhere that it would be of good use.

**nekrosoft13** · 12-12-11, 12:41 PM

sell it, raptors are useless now

PaiN · 12-12-11, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

sell it, raptors are useless now

I'm not selling it....to you vultures

Why are Raptors useless? I'm not buying an SSD anytime soon, its fast and free so I will find a use for it.
The only thing I need to know(or have at least an educated guess) is if an Enterprise, 32mb cache, 10k rpm Raptor is faster or not slower for the OS than on the RAID 0 with two 7.2k rpm, 16mb cache HDs..? I'd like my OS on a dedicated HD anyway.

Redeemed · 12-12-11, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by PaiN

I'm not selling it....to you vultures

Why are Raptors useless? I'm not buying an SSD anytime soon, its fast and free so I will find a use for it.
The only thing I need to know(or have at least an educated guess) is if an Enterprise, 32mb cache, 10k rpm Raptor is faster or not slower for the OS than on the RAID 0 with two 7.2k rpm, 16mb cache HDs..? I'd like my OS on a dedicated HD anyway.

I have no idea. So try it and find out. Report back with your results.

GO!

**nekrosoft13** · 12-12-11, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaiN

I'm not selling it....to you vultures

Why are Raptors useless? I'm not buying an SSD anytime soon, its fast and free so I will find a use for it.
The only thing I need to know(or have at least an educated guess) is if an Enterprise, 32mb cache, 10k rpm Raptor is faster or not slower for the OS than on the RAID 0 with two 7.2k rpm, 16mb cache HDs..? I'd like my OS on a dedicated HD anyway.

that would imply that someone here actually want one. i'm sorry but raptors are useless, they are not much faster then fast 7200rpm drive, and in price/performance SSD kill them

PaiN · 12-12-11, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Redeemed

I have no idea. So try it and find out. Report back with your results.

I'm going too...I've been wanting do a clean install since I rebuilt on the i5, anyway.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

and in price/performance SSD kill them

Not in my case it doesn't ...now try and argue with that

**Greedo** · 12-12-11, 09:20 PM

use it to save the funny gifs from the testing forum.

**bob saget** · 12-12-11, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Greedo

use it to save the funny gifs from the testing forum.

you need an SSD for those... only losers save them onto raptors. pathetic.

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ViN86 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,486	Re: What would you do with a Raptor? cough sell it cough I mean, with your current storage situation, the Raptor doesn't really fit anywhere that it would be of good use.

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zoomy942 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bellevue, ID Posts: 5,330	Do you have HD videos? Streaming them off a raptor would be very smooth. Or perhaps setup virtual machines on it for experiments? Sent from my Incredible using Tapatalk