Hi all,
I am looking to upgrade my system in the near future, and probably to Conroe, as it is now obvuiosly King of the Hill.
However I have not got enough money to a complete rehall of my system just at this moment (3500+ venice, asus a8n-sli deluxe, 6200TC GPHX, 1gb gskill ram ddr400).
So I think I am going to upgrade in steps with components that will be surported on both rigs.
First I think I would benefit the most from upgrading my IDE 160gb Seagate Barracuda to maybe a Raptor and a big sata hard drive?
The speed applications open, and windows boot, is very important to me, so I think a Raptor is the only way.
I am not sure which to get, it will be for all application and windows, so I doubt Ill actually use much more than 20-25gb. These are my following thoughts:
The 36gb Raptor seems to be the oldest without recent revision and seems to be regarded as the noisest and worst as its one of the first Raptors? Although its still offers great performance, the more recent raptors are probably better?
The 74gb seems more recent and is not much more expensive? Also it will be a little quicker because I will use up a smaller % of the space?
The 150gb Raptor X thing seems great, and is the newest one, (and the windowed ones look damn cool!). I'm semi tempted to possibly get this and do away with any other hard drive and maybe store my bulk media and stuff on DVDs and stuff or maybe an external drive. . .I'm not sure though. I don't thnk I can justifiy the cost though, and I do access my media and stuff often. . I couldnt afford this and another hard drive as well.
Backing Up is no problem for me – (so I dont really want Raid 1, or have a problem with just 1 hard drive) – as I have a 'syncronisation' type setup in which the important 'my documents 'folder is the same on my Laptop, so if either crashed I would have the other one – a bit like Raid 1. (I use the program 'Allway Sync' by the way incase anyones interested.)
I currently have around £600 for another computer, so I can't go to Conroe and afford things just yet.(got monitor) So I don't want to spend too much now. .on the hard drive part.
With regards to my current hard drive – a 160gb IDE Seagate barracuda 7200.9 7200rpm, is it worth selling this and moving to SATA II or something? I could do with no chunky IDE cable that is affecting my air flow and cable tidyness. Would I see performance gain with a similar sized Sata?
So my questions:
1.Which Raptor is the best value for money and the best for me?
2.Should I sell my IDE Seagate hd, and go for a newer Sata one?
3.In a system with an Antec Smartpower II 500w, two fans, and a passively cooled video card, will the raptors be noisier enough to be heard?
Thanks for any advice,
Hope I'm not being stupid on the subject
I am looking to upgrade my system in the near future, and probably to Conroe, as it is now obvuiosly King of the Hill.
However I have not got enough money to a complete rehall of my system just at this moment (3500+ venice, asus a8n-sli deluxe, 6200TC GPHX, 1gb gskill ram ddr400).
So I think I am going to upgrade in steps with components that will be surported on both rigs.
First I think I would benefit the most from upgrading my IDE 160gb Seagate Barracuda to maybe a Raptor and a big sata hard drive?
The speed applications open, and windows boot, is very important to me, so I think a Raptor is the only way.
I am not sure which to get, it will be for all application and windows, so I doubt Ill actually use much more than 20-25gb. These are my following thoughts:
The 36gb Raptor seems to be the oldest without recent revision and seems to be regarded as the noisest and worst as its one of the first Raptors? Although its still offers great performance, the more recent raptors are probably better?
The 74gb seems more recent and is not much more expensive? Also it will be a little quicker because I will use up a smaller % of the space?
The 150gb Raptor X thing seems great, and is the newest one, (and the windowed ones look damn cool!). I'm semi tempted to possibly get this and do away with any other hard drive and maybe store my bulk media and stuff on DVDs and stuff or maybe an external drive. . .I'm not sure though. I don't thnk I can justifiy the cost though, and I do access my media and stuff often. . I couldnt afford this and another hard drive as well.
Backing Up is no problem for me – (so I dont really want Raid 1, or have a problem with just 1 hard drive) – as I have a 'syncronisation' type setup in which the important 'my documents 'folder is the same on my Laptop, so if either crashed I would have the other one – a bit like Raid 1. (I use the program 'Allway Sync' by the way incase anyones interested.)
I currently have around £600 for another computer, so I can't go to Conroe and afford things just yet.(got monitor) So I don't want to spend too much now. .on the hard drive part.
With regards to my current hard drive – a 160gb IDE Seagate barracuda 7200.9 7200rpm, is it worth selling this and moving to SATA II or something? I could do with no chunky IDE cable that is affecting my air flow and cable tidyness. Would I see performance gain with a similar sized Sata?
So my questions:
1.Which Raptor is the best value for money and the best for me?
2.Should I sell my IDE Seagate hd, and go for a newer Sata one?
3.In a system with an Antec Smartpower II 500w, two fans, and a passively cooled video card, will the raptors be noisier enough to be heard?
Thanks for any advice,
Hope I'm not being stupid on the subject