Quote from: Clockd 0NeIm still undecided about Raptor vs regular HDDs. Im definitely doing a RAID, so maybe the raptors are overkill? Could do with the experienced users opinion here.

i remember reading an article where someone benched Raptors up against standard HDDs.  In single drive they where the fastest (Though the SATA300 drives where so close it didnt seem worth the cost of the Raptor), but in RAID the SATA300 drives left the Raptors for dead.  

yeag, get 4 nice quiet drives and raid them up... once youve got 4 of them the bottle neck wont be the drives anymore...

raptors are way too noisy for me !

Cheers guys. Ill go with that plan then (it will save a lot of wasted money too).

I do want awesome performance but gone are the days where I would tolerate a 60mm delta screamer whining away like a vacuum... so Ill take quiet overall this time

Any other HDD recommendations, based on quietness, platter size/speed? Do the 32Mb cache drives help?

Yeah i would recommened getting some of those Samsung SpinPoint hard drives as they really are quiet as i own a 320GB one, they are brilliant

Liam

If your after silence, then spinpoints, everything else is just too noisy for me now, I hate my WDs in my rig. Too Loud and too hot.