Hard drive options

kornmart · 15-September-03, 10:44 PM

Well... I have been posting trying to find out the best components for the computer I am building right now, and these are the hard drives I came up with. For my primary Hard drive, I was looking at the Western Digital Raptor, 36.7GB, with 10,000 rpm rotation. And for my secondary, a Western Digital Caviar 120GB @ 7,200 rpm. Is that 10,000 rpm hard drive pretty stable at that speed?

AntiM · 15-September-03, 11:02 PM

The Raptor claims a 1.2 million hour MTBF spec and features a five-year warranty. I'd say that's stable.

FeRaL · 16-September-03, 01:18 AM

Just an FYI, as great as the Raptors are, they run hot and loud...

kornmart · 16-September-03, 09:04 AM

so you think it would be a good idea to get a hard drive cooler for that beyotch?

FeRaL · 16-September-03, 01:57 PM

Not too sure on that one. The casing for the HDD itself is like a huge heat shink. I guess the real question should be do you really need that high of performance? The 5 yr warranty is a real bonus ta boot. I decided on not getting the Raptor and I even had an inside guy at Wester Digital who could get me a decent price on them... they were still too costly. I ended up gettting Seagate SATA's that I am running on a RAID 0. I can't hear them and they don't harldy generate any heat at all.

EDIT: here is a link on a comparison of some SATA's

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTIyLDE=

15-September-03, 10:44 PM		#1 (permalink)
kornmart Apex Master Tech	Hard drive options Well... I have been posting trying to find out the best components for the computer I am building right now, and these are the hard drives I came up with. For my primary Hard drive, I was looking at the Western Digital Raptor, 36.7GB, with 10,000 rpm rotation. And for my secondary, a Western Digital Caviar 120GB @ 7,200 rpm. Is that 10,000 rpm hard drive pretty stable at that speed?

16-September-03, 01:57 PM		#5 (permalink)
FeRaL Mutant Moderator	Not too sure on that one. The casing for the HDD itself is like a huge heat shink. I guess the real question should be do you really need that high of performance? The 5 yr warranty is a real bonus ta boot. I decided on not getting the Raptor and I even had an inside guy at Wester Digital who could get me a decent price on them... they were still too costly. I ended up gettting Seagate SATA's that I am running on a RAID 0. I can't hear them and they don't harldy generate any heat at all. EDIT: here is a link on a comparison of some SATA's http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTIyLDE= Last edited by FeRaL; 16-September-03 at 03:39 PM..

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15-September-03, 11:02 PM		#2 (permalink)
AntiM Aqua Pimp	The Raptor claims a 1.2 million hour MTBF spec and features a five-year warranty. I'd say that's stable.

16-September-03, 01:18 AM		#3 (permalink)
FeRaL Mutant Moderator	Just an FYI, as great as the Raptors are, they run hot and loud...

16-September-03, 09:04 AM		#4 (permalink)
kornmart Apex Master Tech	so you think it would be a good idea to get a hard drive cooler for that beyotch?