Should I buy a VelociRaptor?

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i7 3770k 3.5ghz CPU
GTX 760 SC GPU
16GB Ram
750 Watt Power
1 HDD (7200rpm) 1 SSD (Samsung 840 EVO on rapid mode)

Hello all, I'm back once again with another recording question. Recently I've been researching recording methods, and ways to make things run faster. If I record, my FPS will shoot down to 45, no matter what resolution, I don't know why. I use SATA 3, 1 HDD and 1 SSD for recording. The HDD is 7200rpm. Anyway, I've been desperate to get 60fps stable recording. By the way, I know shadowplay exist, but it's mp4 quality being rerendered + audio is horrible in my opinion, so please do not talk about any other software besides fraps/dxtory/Action!. I'm thinking I should get this VelociRaptor (10,000rpm) For recording, whilst my SSD running the game. A 250 GB model is only 89 dollars, but should I really buy it?
ANY HELP WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED!
-Jon

-Screen Resolution is at 720p

For anyone who wants to know my writing speeds benchmarks for both HDD and SSD, here it is.

Benchmark speeds for SSD
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 440.439 MB/s
Sequential Write : 268.470 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 0.000 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 0.000 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.000 MB/s [ 0.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.000 MB/s [ 0.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.000 MB/s [ 0.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.000 MB/s [ 0.0 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [E: 10.0% (11.2/111.8 GB)] (x3)
Date : 2014/05/13 15:51:43
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

HDD Benchmark is

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 135.536 MB/s
Sequential Write : 134.201 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 45.819 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 66.192 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.544 MB/s [ 132.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.140 MB/s [ 278.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.440 MB/s [ 351.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.790 MB/s [ 437.0 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [C: 12.2% (228.2/1862.9 GB)] (x3)
Date : 2014/05/13 16:00:31
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)


 
Velociraptor wouldn't help you just get WD Black for recording, there is not big performance increase over WD Black :)
Or simply just install your game which you record into HDD. Record it and then edit it (cut load times).
I use "shadowplay" to but it won't affect while recording. (however I'm not a recorder :D) I just don't have an SSD and my 7200RPM WD Blue works perfectly for recording and gaming :)
 

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A couple options before buying a different hard drive, set fraps to 60fps in the movies tab, not sure if you have to pay for this option, I pay monthly, default is 30fps. And try to record you recordings to a drive that doesn't have your so and games on it, something just for recording to, if possible. Hope this helps
 

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http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/b75%20pro3/ Pretty lame motherboard... but it has Sata 3's to spare.
 


Have you plugged your HDD into SATA-3?
 

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I have checked and made sure both my HDD and SSD are both using SATA 3, and they are, still pathetic FPS drop,
 

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