Hi Folks,
Currently, I have a 74GB Raptor in my system. It's a great drive, very fast, super reliable (8-10 hours a day since 2004), but of course the one drawback is the size of the drive. I have gotten into the habit of copying my music collection to multiple CD's to keep a decent amount of free space on the drive. This does have advantages, since it is a backup and I can play the (mp3) CDs on a real stereo or in the car, but it gets old to have to dig up the right CD to hear one song.
I love the speed of the Raptor, and I understand that they have a 300GB version out now, but I don't really care for the price tag. It's about $300 and at today's rock bottom prices you can a 1TB 7200 rpm drive for under $200. That really blows me away....I remember paying $700 for a Western Digital 1.2GB EIDE drive (5400rpm I think) back in 1994! Heck, my first PC had an 80 _Megabyte_ MFM Seagate that cost around $400 in 1990. It also filled an entire 5 1/4" drive bay and weighed about 10 pounds, no joke!
Anyway, sorry for the ramblings... What I am looking for is 1TB of storage (want this to last me 4-5 years), but I would like the speed of the Raptor. I think that I will keep the Raptor for a Kubtunu drive, and then buy either a fast 1TB drive or RAID two 500GB. Might even do a RAID with two 750GB's depending on pricing.
Could you guys recommend which approach would be better, and also recommend some drives? I am partial to Western Digital, but hear that Seagate is the speed king and has a better warranty these days.
Thanks in advance....sorry for the long message.
Edit: The rest of the system is an Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2-800, ATI 2400 pro 256mb.
Currently, I have a 74GB Raptor in my system. It's a great drive, very fast, super reliable (8-10 hours a day since 2004), but of course the one drawback is the size of the drive. I have gotten into the habit of copying my music collection to multiple CD's to keep a decent amount of free space on the drive. This does have advantages, since it is a backup and I can play the (mp3) CDs on a real stereo or in the car, but it gets old to have to dig up the right CD to hear one song.
I love the speed of the Raptor, and I understand that they have a 300GB version out now, but I don't really care for the price tag. It's about $300 and at today's rock bottom prices you can a 1TB 7200 rpm drive for under $200. That really blows me away....I remember paying $700 for a Western Digital 1.2GB EIDE drive (5400rpm I think) back in 1994! Heck, my first PC had an 80 _Megabyte_ MFM Seagate that cost around $400 in 1990. It also filled an entire 5 1/4" drive bay and weighed about 10 pounds, no joke!
Anyway, sorry for the ramblings... What I am looking for is 1TB of storage (want this to last me 4-5 years), but I would like the speed of the Raptor. I think that I will keep the Raptor for a Kubtunu drive, and then buy either a fast 1TB drive or RAID two 500GB. Might even do a RAID with two 750GB's depending on pricing.
Could you guys recommend which approach would be better, and also recommend some drives? I am partial to Western Digital, but hear that Seagate is the speed king and has a better warranty these days.
Thanks in advance....sorry for the long message.
Edit: The rest of the system is an Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2-800, ATI 2400 pro 256mb.
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