SCSI10k vs. WD 740 Raptor 10k

[ocx]

my current harddrive for my entire game system is a 75 gig IBM 75GXP. i'm not sure if its on its last leg but if i play a movig around 200 megs in size it takes forver to load and play and so on.

i own a 10k rpm 4gig seagate cheetah. my 75gxp has two partitions, one for the OS(4 gigs) and one for storage.

im looking to spend 200-250...are the new WD740 Raptor and Seagate 7200.7 drives that much faster then my current one? i cant find any reviews on my to compare stats. would i notice a big difference between my current HDD and the 7200.7 or do i need to step up to the WD740? also i think the 7200.7 in raid 0 is as fast as a single wd740. should i just get two?

overall i guess is my current scsi10k equal or slower then the 740 WD.
.adam.

 

[blah]

from what I could read you are trying to play incomplete .avi files with DivX, and that takes a lot to load into memory ever with the faster drive, so if you are planning only play movigs it will not make a big difference, GXP is faster than 7x.2, SCSI is better that IDE in any case even if it is a bit slower than IDE in "loading" movig. 10k will give you a sec or two advantage in movig loading than 7.2k, but is is worth paying 3 bux a gig for what you do?.. not in my book. These days I preffferr to pay $0.5 a gig and live with a few seconds "lag". So maybe someone else will help you more with your decision.

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[Vapor]

slower than the Raptor

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[sjonnie]

Your ancient 4G cheetah isn't going to match any of the modern drives around in terms of continuous read/write, even your 75GXP should be a match for that. I would recommend a WD740GD for good seek times and fast transfer rate. Two 7200.7s in a RAID0 will probably match the transfer rate of a WD740GD but not on seek time.

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[blah]

sheez, I just got 120 gig for 60 bux, worra screw up, if I only <A HREF="http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=304907&pfp=hpf3#checkstore" target="_new">knew</A>, but on the other hand, it still 50 cents a gig.

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