WD raptor 74 Gb or WD 250 7200 rpm

[Daveke34]

I'm building a new sysem but can't decide which hard drive to take: WD raptor 74 Gb 10000 rpm or WD 250 Gb 7200 rpm ? I will use the pc mostly for gaming.
I heard good things about the raptors but they are expensive and I don't want to spend more than $230 so the 74 Gb seems to be the only option. but is a hard drive of 74 Gb enough ?
Alternatively, I was thinking about the WD 250 which runs at 7200 rpm.
What are your thoughts ?

greetz

 

[MU_Engineer]

The 74GB Raptor740GD is ~$140 and the WD 250GB (you want the Caviar SE16, WD2500KS is the model of that I have) is about $90. So do the smart thing and get both, put the OS and apps on the Raptor and your documents on the 250GB unit. I did *exactly* that and it is great.

However, if you can only buy one, get the 250GB unit. It's about 85% as fast as the Raptor but much bigger. Much quieter too- the Raptor isn't noisy, but you can hear it while the Caviar is darn near silent.

 

[Daveke34]

74GB is more than enough to store all your OS, applications and games. If you plan on storing things downloaded from P2P(*hint hint*) that won't be enough.

According to Microsoft if I want to run Vista I'll need
40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.

so 74 Gb seems not be enough. ?

A 74 Gb raptor and a 250 gb hdd would be ideal but unfortunately i don't have the budget right now

 

[MU_Engineer]

Then the 250GB Caviar SE16 will do a nice job for you.