Raptor 10000RPM vs Standard 7200RPM Hard Drive

Here's my question:

-What's the performance gain between 10000RPM and 7200RPM Hard Drive besides loading time?
-Do you get in-game performance gain? (More FPS, etc..)

Thank you

So I could use a Performance Raid 0 setup with 2 x 160Gb SATA 3Gb/s and 7200 RPM?
-This would not affect game performance at all?

If yes, that's good news since I would save $$$ and having more storage capacity.

Coming from a user of both RAID and high performance hard drives, both RAID and Raptors are a waste for a gaming machine, gaming is the last thing you need a fast hard drive for. Once the game is loaded into the RAM, there's very little reading off of the hard drive. You won't get faster fps with a faster hard drive.

high speed drives are good for gaminf just not doe some of you. It may not help FPS but in MMO's it will greatly reduce zone load times.

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If I had to rebuild my computer, knowing what I know now, the Raptor would be the only part I'd buy again. It's one of the better performance updgrades I've done. Load times, defrags, installs, etc. are all greatly improved.

That being said, don't buy one if you don't have the cash. If you only care about gaming, then you should get a 7200 drive, and use the ~$200 you save for a better video card -- you'll get better bang for your buck that way...

I have asked this on another place aswell, but I think this topic fits my question very well:

I am buying a new PC in January too and I am still wondering which hard-disk setup to take.

Maybe you can help me, I am leaning forward to either:

2x Raptor X 150GB (in raid 0) + 750 GB Samsung F1 32 MB Cache

or

2x Samsung F1 750 GB 32 MB Cache (in raid 0)

The first one is about 200 Euro more expensive than the second setup.

Is this 200 Euro well spend or are they about equity fast? My total budget is about 3000 - 3200 Euro and I use it mainly for games.

Thanks in advance!

PS: Is there any news on when the new Raptors will be released?

get two drives. buy the smallest possible raptor (i believe it is 36 gigs) and install your os and any apps that need a speed sensitive hard drive. install everything else on a standard 7200.

the downside to the raptors is they sound just about like coffee grinders at times...they can be loud! if you are one of those people who gets angry if you can hear your machine over the noise of small insects, you don't wanna go with a raptor.

another obvious downside is cost.