Quote Originally Posted by LOE View Post
However - I would never go for a raptor, when I can get 1 TB drive for 170$ that has almost the same speed. With the 334GB drives being so fast, and so cheap, the price/performance/capacity ratio goes far beyond the reach of the raptors

NOW, I want a 666 GB drive
Raptors have half the access times of the 1TB disks, this would make them far better OS disks. Of course if you want the HDD only to store data I would advise for the higher density disks myself too, but as far as OS disks go raptors still have the (considerable) edge.