Western Digital Raptors

[phillyman36]

Hey i have 2 7200 rpm hard drives. Do the WD raptor drives speed up say copying dvd files from dsik to hard drive? If so how much of an increase in speed do i get. What else can a 10000 rpm hard drive be faster and by how much

 

[Blain]

Search at Storage Reviews for those answers. They've don't extensive testing.

 

[Promethply]

Here's a link comparing the Raptor74 to Maxtor MaxlineIII:

Western Digital Raptor WD740GD vs Maxtor MaXLine III

 

[imported_llama]

Anything from a Disk (DVD or CD) will be limited by the Disk medium, not your hard drive

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Raptors aren't that fast anymore. In many synthetic tests, the Raptor owns, but the gap is definitely closing. In the Doom 3 test, the Maxline just runs over the Raptor. Real world tests matter, and if the Raptor can't rape texture loading tests... ughhh

 

[imported_Kensai]

The Raptors are giving SCSI 15ks a run for their money.

 

[flatblastard]

Originally posted by: phillyman36
Hey i have 2 7200 rpm hard drives. Do the WD raptor drives speed up say copying dvd files from dsik to hard drive? If so how much of an increase in speed do i get. What else can a 10000 rpm hard drive be faster and by how much

I agree with llama, your dvd drive is the bottleneck in that scenario, so raptor wont help with that. The Raptor will be faster at nearly everthing except for loading games, from what I've seen. I have 74GB raptor which houses my OS, HL2, and Farcry. I have everything else installed on seagate 7200.8 250GB. I would say they are equal when it comes to loading games, but the Raptor is noticeably faster at everything else.

 

[aatf510]

If you are talking purely about DVD/CD to harddrive performance, then it wouldn't help a tiny bit.
Buying a brand-new DVD-ROM might be more helpful.