WD 74G 10K Raptor vs, WD 120G SATA 7800

[DVDDave]

anybody no how much faster is a WD Raptor than most regulat SATA drives??? any diff in boot speed? and is it better for video capture and burning?

[Faustus]

Boot speed should be a little faster. Basicly the Raptor is a 10k rpm scsi drive converted to SATA. So in cases where scsi shines it does, and in cases where it doesn't it doesn't.

Raptors make excellent boot drives.

[thecoalman]

The magic of google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=raptor+vs++wd+sata&spell=1

From experience I can tell you my 120G 7200 8mb Seagate Barracuda OS drive was able to capture a 40 minute uncompressed AVI. I think the final file size was around 70 or 80 gigs, it's been a while since I did it so that may be wrong. Best thing about this drive is that it's almost silent, it sits right next to me and I can barley hear it even when capping. The case fans are louder.

Edit: Just ran my own little boot test, 47 seconds from the time I pushed the button until I had the logon screen.

[HillJack]

Edit: Just ran my own little boot test, 47 seconds from the time I pushed the button until I had the logon screen.

So 32 seconds (19 if you exclude BIOS post stuff) on my 80GB WD Caviar 7200rpm under XP Pro (UDMA 5 - Ultra 100) is a good thing then?

[Jayhawk]

So 32 seconds (19 if you exclude BIOS post stuff) on my 80GB WD Caviar 7200rpm under XP Pro (UDMA 5 - Ultra 100) is a good thing then?

Not sure you can pin boot time directly on a hard drive. Seems like it would depend (also) on motherboard, memory amount and speed, bios settings, devices (drivers), etc. Mine is around 45 seconds with a WD 80gig 7200 ATA100 but probably 10 - 15 seconds of that is waiting for a Promise controller to find my other hard drive.

[thecoalman]

Edit: Just ran my own little boot test, 47 seconds from the time I pushed the button until I had the logon screen.

So 32 seconds (19 if you exclude BIOS post stuff) on my 80GB WD Caviar 7200rpm under XP Pro (UDMA 5 - Ultra 100) is a good thing then?

Sure unless you test them on the same machine http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rid=56148 Check out the load times from the drop down menu at the bottom.

If you look at these test you'll see all 3 top drives are all over the place depending on the task....except in decibles

[rallynavvie]

I like my single Raptor boot drive. I love low access and seek times. While we're on the subject of fast spindle drives you wouldn't believe how well 15k SCSI drives work for scratch space