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Sty · 01-31-2006, 06:41 PM

Eh, the Raptors work perfectly.

I have one 74G 10kRPM in my home computer (no active cooling) and I've heard no reports of them failing (than the very first 36G models 3 years ago). I also have something around 20 of them in my servers and none of them has ever failed (all but hitachi and wd has failed number of times, especially maxtor. Replaced tens of those last year alone)

I just love the 74G raptor. XP is sooooo fast to boot up and now that I started installing the games also on that drives, the levels load up 2-3 times faster than my friends 16MB 400G drive. Remember, good seek rates are for os and programs (ergo, 10k rpm) and thruput is for data and storage.

You don't need SATAII MB to plug in SATAII drives. According to test, there's no advantage either. The drives are just not up to that speed yet.

RAID1 is good choice for redundancy. You get almost as good write speeds as with single drive and in most of the cases, increased reading speed (depends on implementation)

For the memory, get anything your wallet will handle that has low timings. The T1 command rate is especially important and the latencies after that (2-2-2-6 is very good). The corsair memory you first chose is not for overclocking but for maximum performance.

For overclocking, generally, you would use memory with SLOWER latencies and HIGHER rate, eg. the corsair that goes to PC4400 or higher.

01-31-2006, 06:41 PM	#9 (permalink)
Sty Patron Administrator Location: Tôkyô, Japan	Eh, the Raptors work perfectly. I have one 74G 10kRPM in my home computer (no active cooling) and I've heard no reports of them failing (than the very first 36G models 3 years ago). I also have something around 20 of them in my servers and none of them has ever failed (all but hitachi and wd has failed number of times, especially maxtor. Replaced tens of those last year alone) I just love the 74G raptor. XP is sooooo fast to boot up and now that I started installing the games also on that drives, the levels load up 2-3 times faster than my friends 16MB 400G drive. Remember, good seek rates are for os and programs (ergo, 10k rpm) and thruput is for data and storage. You don't need SATAII MB to plug in SATAII drives. According to test, there's no advantage either. The drives are just not up to that speed yet. RAID1 is good choice for redundancy. You get almost as good write speeds as with single drive and in most of the cases, increased reading speed (depends on implementation) For the memory, get anything your wallet will handle that has low timings. The T1 command rate is especially important and the latencies after that (2-2-2-6 is very good). The corsair memory you first chose is not for overclocking but for maximum performance. For overclocking, generally, you would use memory with SLOWER latencies and HIGHER rate, eg. the corsair that goes to PC4400 or higher. __________________ br, Sty I route, therefore you exist