Old WD Raptor 74GB

[doanster]

I've had this drive for a number of years now and have been very happy with it. Just too small now. How does it stack up against today's WD Caviar Blacks and Seagate 7200.12s? How about the 150GB and 300GB Velociraptors?

 

[Ben90]

your raptor would make for a great operating system drive due to the 10k rpm and all of the small files associated with loading the os.
as has been stated like 50 times on this forum, the new WD 640 blacks are just about as fast as even the newest raptors (expect with really small files). Personally i would just keep the raptor as a boot drive, and add the 640 for storage

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: doanster
Old WD Raptor 74GB
Still worth keeping?

Still worth keeping vs what... throwing it in the trash can? :roll:

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Blain
Still worth keeping vs what...

Originally posted by: doanster
How does it stack up against today's WD Caviar Blacks and Seagate 7200.12s? How about the 150GB and 300GB Velociraptors?

Geez

 

[taltamir]

my old 74GB raptor is slower (although with better access speed) than my 640GB caviar blue... and much LOUDER too. Not worth keeping IMAO.

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: Ben90
your raptor would make for a great operating system drive due to the 10k rpm and all of the small files associated with loading the os.
as has been stated like 50 times on this forum, the new WD 640 blacks are just about as fast as even the newest raptors (expect with really small files). Personally i would just keep the raptor as a boot drive, and add the 640 for storage

QFT.

I put one in my WHS for the OS but I still have another looking for a home.

 

[Blain]

Just throw it away, it's worthless.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Access time is everything for OSes/programs. I'd keep using it for either OS or if you have a faster VR or SSD use it to put programs that you can't fit on the main drive. Unless the noise is just driving you crazy.

 

[k0rnh0li0]

yeah your better off now getting a ssd. dont mess with velociptors anymore or raptors.

 

[gammaray]

It depends which one you got, WD made a new raptor WD740ADFD ( 1 year ago maybe?)not so long ago and it's almost as fast as the 150 gb velociraptor.

Even if it's the old one, of course it's worth keeping, why would you throw it away? You can always install linux on it or test stuff whatever.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: gammaray
It depends which one you got, WD made a new raptor WD740ADFD ( 1 year ago maybe?)not so long ago and it's almost as fast as the 150 gb velociraptor.

Even if it's the old one, of course it's worth keeping, why would you throw it away? You can always install linux on it or test stuff whatever.

The 74 GB ADFD is faster than the 150gb Raptor but not the Velociraptor. I still use the ADFD 74gb. I felt it was faster than my 640gb AAKS (Blue). I don't know if it's faster than my 1TB Black though. Too lazy to try.

 

[AbRASiON]

Sell it ASAP while it still has re-sale value to people who think they are good drives.
They WERE good drives, nowadays they are awful, trust me I've owned 36's and 74's - a modern 7200rpm is better now.
Sell sell sell!

 

[gammaray]

Originally posted by: AbRASiON
Sell it ASAP while it still has re-sale value to people who think they are good drives.
They WERE good drives, nowadays they are awful, trust me I've owned 36's and 74's - a modern 7200rpm is better now.
Sell sell sell!

My raptor ADFD is faster than both 500gbs 32MBs cache seagate (7200.11) and western digital (caviar black) 7200 rpm i own. I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Krynj]

Not sure how much this will help the OP, but I have a 1TB Green, 1TB Black, and a 300GB VelociRaptor. I ran a benchmark on all of them and got these results.

http://i23.photobucket.com/alb...uscakemix/hddbench.png

In order of listing:

1TB Green
1TB Black
300 GB VelociRaptor.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: AbRASiON
Sell it ASAP while it still has re-sale value to people who think they are good drives.
They WERE good drives, nowadays they are awful, trust me I've owned 36's and 74's - a modern 7200rpm is better now.
Sell sell sell!

QFT... speaking of... i better sell MINE, it is just sitting on the floor in my pile of computer junk (i am a bachelor in a 1 bedroom apartment... i literally have a PILE of computer parts in the corner of my room...)

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: taltamir
i better sell MINE, it is just sitting on the floor in my pile of computer junk (i am a bachelor in a 1 bedroom apartment... i literally have a PILE of computer parts in the corner of my room...)

I'm married :laugh:

 

[taltamir]

I'm not:

http://picasaweb.google.com/taltamirh/Mess#
Disclaimer: not ALL of it is visible in those pictures

 

[rlim111]

The only con of Raptors series is only their capacity.
You should keep your old Raptor and use it as your backup data. For a new one choosing Caviar green (good durability) or blue (good performances) is OK since velociRaptor is more expensive.

 

[taltamir]

the capacity doesn't bother me, the noise does

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: FetusCakeMix
Not sure how much this will help the OP, but I have a 1TB Green, 1TB Black, and a 300GB VelociRaptor. I ran a benchmark on all of them and got these results.

http://i23.photobucket.com/alb...uscakemix/hddbench.png

In order of listing:

1TB Green
1TB Black
300 GB VelociRaptor.

Point taken. Its the random read value that's important there (at least for an OS anyway).

 

[Spikesoldier]

As a buyer today, the raptor does can not compete at any price point. Either high density 7200rpm has it beat throughout the price spectrum, and as the budget increases the SSDs easily crushes the raptor.

If you need something with good access time (web/db server) or are running a web based app service, go ahead. Since you already have it you obviously can't return it, but if you do use it on your personal machine, you know the power, heat, and noise price you have to endure.

I would probably play with it in a virtualization environment myself.

 

[zagood]

Originally posted by: Ben90
your raptor would make for a great operating system drive due to the 10k rpm and all of the small files associated with loading the os.
as has been stated like 50 times on this forum, the new WD 640 blacks are just about as fast as even the newest raptors (expect with really small files). Personally i would just keep the raptor as a boot drive, and add the 640 for storage

This is what I've been running for the last 6 months or so. Access time for the 74gb raptor is definitely lower, it fails in everything else though. Still good enough to warrant OS and paging files, with apps on the Black and storage/backup on an old 500gb.

HD Tune: WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 44.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 83.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 72.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 8.2 ms
Burst Rate : 76.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 8.9%

HD Tune: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 53.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 118.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 97.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 11.9 ms
Burst Rate : 105.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 11.3%

HD Tune: MAXTOR STM3500630AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 36.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 76.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 63.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 13.8 ms
Burst Rate : 117.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 7.1%

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
As a buyer today, the raptor does can not compete at any price point. Either high density 7200rpm has it beat throughout the price spectrum, and as the budget increases the SSDs easily crushes the raptor.

If you need something with good access time (web/db server) or are running a web based app service, go ahead. Since you already have it you obviously can't return it, but if you do use it on your personal machine, you know the power, heat, and noise price you have to endure.

I would probably play with it in a virtualization environment myself.

+1

 

[Adam8281]

Originally posted by: taltamir
I'm not:

http://picasaweb.google.com/taltamirh/Mess#
Disclaimer: not ALL of it is visible in those pictures

You, my friend, are living in squalor.

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: Adam8281

Originally posted by: taltamir
I'm not:

http://picasaweb.google.com/taltamirh/Mess#
Disclaimer: not ALL of it is visible in those pictures

You, my friend, are living in squalor.

Maybe he's just waiting for a Goddess to straighten everything out.