SATA Hard Drives

[Olmy]

I am planning on getting a new computer sometime between the end of August and the end of September and had a few questions about SATA hard drive performance.
I currently have two choices about where to get my computer first being IBuyPower.com and second a wholesale website that I have used in the past to order all the parts I need.
Now getting to the point the wholesale website I ordered off of before offers almost all of the stuff I want to put in my computer (save for the videocard and dual channel memory which are a pain to find where I live) including a WD Raptor SATA drive, but offers no technical support. IBuyPower, however, sell Maxtor 80gig SATA drives but offers a warantee and free technical support as well as the fact that they load all my software. Now I have maybe used technical support 3 times since I got my current PC and can usualy troubleshoot hardware problems on my own, but that fact that it is available and the convience of not having to put it together or load any software is a plus.
My question is how does the performance of the Maxtor SATA drive compare to that of the Raptor SATA drive and is there any problems or issues with the Maxtor drive? (IE loud, hot, unstable)

 

[Crashman]

It should perform identically to the otherwise identicle IDE drive. SATA doesn't offer better performance with today's drives, but the Raptor is a 10,000RPM drive, which makes it faster (still not benefitting from SATA, but not available in IDE).

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[jmecor]

and 10k rpm drives are hotter.

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[Crashman]

IN more ways than one!

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[JP5]

If you are not <i>into</i> building your own computer, then you won't be into a Raptor.

 

[Olmy]

I am into building my own PC I have done so in the past including the one I am currently using. The benefits to me of building it myself is I get the exact parts I want and don't have to settle for generic parts (IE grafics card, I have my heart set on the Gainward 5600 Ultra Flip-chip card)
So what your saying tho is most SATA drives perform identicaly except for the fact that the Raptor is 10k RPM?

 

[svol]

Yes there is no single difference in speed if you run the same model at ATA100/133 or SATA150... the HD simply can't use the full bandwith these protocols offer.

Now the Raptor is only available in SATA form... and it is the fastest IDE drive available.

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[Phalanx01]

120 GB 7200rpm Serial ATA (SATA) 150MB/Sec 8Mb buffer & 3 year warranty for 130 Euro (About 147 US Dollar), is that a good buy? Or should I switch to the same capacity IDE drive?

Is it a bad thing if there is smoke coming out of my case?