Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
Because its an old SATA 1 drive burst is low. Because of the nature of the drive, transfer is rather low (single-platter, two-headed if I recall correctly). Your HDD is perfectly normal, it's strength lies with the low random access. So as a system disk it would probably still outperform a WD6400AAKS.
I'll admit to never trying a Raptor, but when i set up my 640AAKS as an OS drive(XP-Pro-32) i found it very snappy. I assume the Raptors quick access times would make opening folders and apps very quick, but i found installing programs with the 640 was amusing....it just ripped through installs... i'm assuming due to the high STR's.