Raptor not much Faster?

[chjade84]

After building the first of 8 engineering computers for my company I am a bit disappointed (I think) with the performance of the 74GB Raptor HDD I put in it. I benchmarked the old and new systems and the new one annihilated the old Dells in all categories except Disks.

I ran HDTach on both the new system and one I recently built for myself with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 to get a comparison and here's what I found:

The Seagate:

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87.4 MB/s & 15.1ms

The Raptor:

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78.2 MB/s & 10.4ms

The Raptor is much faster in seek times but much slower in throughput. Our guys will be transferring 50-200MB Inventor files from the server to their computers for editing then back to the server when they are done. Is the Raptor the right drive for this? Will the faster seek times make for better performance even with slower throughput? I would have thought the 10k drives would be much faster all around; guess not.

Thanks!

 

[merlinbadman]

In real world terms I would say that the 74GB should edge out the Seagate, far more responsive. The 74GB Raptor is the lowest performing of the Raptors though.

TBH I dont think having either of the two drives would effect the transfer speed of files across your netork. The raptor should however be better while in apps, especially when using big file as the Raptor can use the page file much faster.

 

[cjl]

You've got the label switched there - the Raptor is the second link. It's main benefit is that faster access time, not raw transfer rate.

 

[chjade84]

Thanks cjl, I fixed it.