WD6400AAKS faster than Raptor?

[GAR]

So what is the best setup for this drive, i have mine on the way, i got sick of my raptors loudness.................what kind of partition should i set up for raptor like seek times, thanks.

[vengance_01]

One Drive or two? If you are going for a single Drive, Partition your windows drive with 75GB to just store apps, games, and OS. Then use the rest on a second partition and use that for storage.

[GAR]

One Drive or two? If you are going for a single Drive, Partition your windows drive with 75GB to just store apps, games, and OS. Then use the rest on a second partition and use that for storage.

Hmmm, 80's too small for games and apps, you think i can make 150 and have similar performance???

[xtclocker]

Will this work maybe on other HDs? Like mine X2 250GB Seagate.

[vengance_01]

Hmmm, 80's too small for games and apps, you think i can make 150 and have similar performance???

Yea. The whole idea is use the first haft of the drive thus giving you better performance. The difference between 80 and 150 will only be noticeable in benchmarks and not real world situations.

[afireinside]

Any raptor vs WD6400AAKS impressions? I have two 74s and the noise is killing me after 2 years.

[Vryada]

Any raptor vs WD6400AAKS impressions? I have two 74s and the noise is killing me after 2 years.

Mine arrives tomorrow. When the other hardware arrives too, I’ll do some benching and comparison with my old 150 gb raptor.

[XS Janus]

^do some folder copy tests onto each drive itself and report us the difference, please!

[Vixx]

Although not quite the same, I have a pair of WD5000AAKS that I'll test in a RAID0 configuration if I have time next weekend. I just ordered two more RaptorX150's for my main rig which should be here late this week, so I can't guarantee that it'll get done in that timeframe. I just don't want to take down 2 of my machines all at the same time.

For the time being, this is my 4 raptor RAID array. 6 Raptor array benchies coming soon if anyone is intrested.





p.s. I'm not sure how accurate the CPU utilization numbers are. I ran these while backing up files from my backup drive to my home server. (backup drive is on the same controller)

[Kondik]

I bought 2 silentmaxess , propperly and carefully build them up pu raptors intro it, turned off super prefetch and pagefile
and the only time i hear them is boot

[swiftex]

what am I missing?

I have 2 raptor 150's, one side of the case open and I don't hear any steamships..............

wtf

get a couple of vantec tornado's and get back to me with your comments..............

like who cares if its shaken or stirred? I'm thirsty...............

[Vixx]

I've got to agree, the noise from raptors really isn't that bad. Granted, I only have 4 of em' in my case right now, (2 more to be delivered tomorrow) but I don't hear any real noticible difference between my raptor array and the spinpoint array in my backup machine. Maybe a difference between the 150's and the old 74's and 36's? If you want loud, try the 4 cheetahs in my home server...

As far as the Vantec Tornadoes... LOL... those really are loud. In the old days I had 3 of em' running to cool my old AMD rig, and anytime I talked to someone on the phone they swore it sounded like I was at the airport "because they could hear the jets in the background."

[swiftex]

I've got to agree, the noise from raptors really isn't that bad. Granted, I only have 4 of em' in my case right now, (2 more to be delivered tomorrow) but I don't hear any real noticible difference between my raptor array and the spinpoint array in my backup machine. Maybe a difference between the 150's and the old 74's and 36's? If you want loud, try the 4 cheetahs in my home server...

As far as the Vantec Tornadoes... LOL... those really are loud. In the old days I had 3 of em' running to cool my old AMD rig, and anytime I talked to someone on the phone they swore it sounded like I was at the airport "because they could hear the jets in the background."

hehehehe.....so true!

[Porksmuggler]

Had to save this thread until it came out, but yeah, here's the new Raptor, if you haven't checked it out already.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ptor,1914.html

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583

how about you short stroke one of these EvilBellyLint, and see what you get.

[Andrew LB]

^^^ I think i'm sold on a pair of the new velociraptors. Time to sell off my 2x 74gb drives.

[swiftex]

looks like wd has hit a grand slam for the enthusiast with this one! (new raptor)

[One_Hertz]

I bought 2 silentmaxess , propperly and carefully build them up pu raptors intro it, turned off super prefetch and pagefile
and the only time i hear them is boot

I think you have some reading to do if you decided to turn your pagefile off...

[swiftex]

I think you have some reading to do if you decided to turn your pagefile off...

what's your opinion on this? he is running 8gb of mem and i would assume (mind you - should never assume) he's using x64 os

[One_Hertz]

what's your opinion on this? he is running 8gb of mem and i would assume (mind you - should never assume) he's using x64 os

Windows doesn't function properly without a pagefile regardless of the amount of ram and you lose performance. It's a topic old as dirt you can use search or google...

[swiftex]

Windows doesn't function properly without a pagefile regardless of the amount of ram and you lose performance. It's a topic old as dirt you can use search or google...

granted it is an old topic with differing opinions to this day -
but other then assigning 2mb for a dump file for error purposes if you desire- turning off prefetch - forcing ram to system cache -
how would it then effect performance? (unless using Photoshop or something similar)

[ikjadoon]

Results from a poor sap (me) who can't buy 4 WD6400AAKS or a Raptor (single 640GB short-stroked):



I highlighted the 64KB row because that is the standard size used by HD Tune so it should be closely comparable. 50GB partition,

~Ibrahim~