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22nd November 2003, 07:20
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 |  a question for raptor owners My workrig sports an abit nf7-s with a xp2400+ at 166fsb(basically unoverclocked) there's a sucky 512 mb stick (sc) of apacer on there that runs 166 @ cas 2 -3-2-6 That's perfect for day use (it's only used to surf sometimes but run medical applications most of the time (accrimed/prescribe/medibridge), but the hdd is an ancient 10 gb ibm, don't even know what type, backups are done on a maxtor 40 gb daily, but os and all apps are on the oldie If I were to switch that ancient ibm drive (it's over three years old now) for a 36 gb raptor, would the difference in desktop use/simple apps be noticeable? coz if it wouldn't there's no use changing it. can I use a single sata drive on any nf7-s? sisoft drive benchmark gives the drive 11719 points  that's very very low, considering my 2 mb cache 40 gb maxtor does 28.000 buffered read 27 sequential read 18 average seektime 21
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22nd November 2003, 08:50
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| Re: a question for raptor owners Quote:
concerning your other questions. windows will boot faster, 100% sure of that, but if normal usage will be faster, can't tell you that | |
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22nd November 2003, 09:11
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| i don't know about now, but i know some people who have some problems with theire raptor and nf7-s in 90% procent off the time when they boot, the get this screen: "One or more disks need to be checked for consistancy....", then he performs a diskcheck on 1 or more partitions, the pc reboots and starts win with no problems greetz |
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22nd November 2003, 10:56
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| current drive pêrforms a bit higher then an ata 66 drive with 1mb cache and 4200 rpm I don't care for boot times, it's quite often used for unrarring too (big files, 1-2 gb)
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22nd November 2003, 11:16
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| extracting = alot of read/write, so access times are important = high RPM is the way to go.. They are véry fast, you will see a difference! Anyway, if you replace your ibm, how much you ask for it? (considering you don't need it anymore.) I need not-too-bih harddisks for my (game)servers  |
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22nd November 2003, 11:29
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Single sata = no problem.
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22nd November 2003, 12:36
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| It will be indeed faster. Aso your caching done on the drive will speed up, wich gives a rather nice boost. Rest's been said already. |
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22nd November 2003, 22:16
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| so I should give it a go
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23rd November 2003, 18:54
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| another question about those raptor drives; I find them kinda expensive, are they worth the price? (compared to other SATA drives) |
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23rd November 2003, 22:50
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if you need (fast) storage: prolly not (yet) (expensive is relative tho) | |
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