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Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:25 am
by Siryne
Anyone useing this drive? Any info? Is it reccomended, and is it noticibly faster than 7200 Seagate drives. Would it make a LARGE improvement in my trackcount and/or plug in usage?
Dual G5 1.8
2GB RAM
DP 4.5
TC Powercore Element
MOTU 896HD
OS 10.3.5
Thanks
Peace
Re: Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:07 am
by Spiderfinger
I have 2 Raptors in a G5 dual 2.5 w/8 gig of ram. One is my boot drive and the other is for sample streaming. The performance difference is huge. I can stream over 300 simultaneous Mach 5 voices using the Raptor, where I couldn't come anywhere near that with the stock Seagate 7200 RPM SATA or using my Firewire 800 drives. Overall system feel is noticeably faster with Raptor as boot drive.
Highly recommended.
Re: Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:32 pm
by kmixx
How are the drives, when it comes to noise?
Re: Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:42 am
by inukshuk
I don't know how quite the raptors are but I have the WD Caviars in mine and the are good and quite, but I am definitely going to get the raptors in my next computor.
I'd love to put them in my present computer, but can't because my present system is set-up for ATA drives, unless someone can help me with this.
Re: Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:55 pm
by wolfetho
I was also thinking about putting the Raptor in my G4 dual 1.25 ghz. machine. From what I've heard you can use the SATA drives in your G4 with a SATA controller (PCI card). there's a company named FilmTek , and SIIG that make a controller card for about $70.00.
I'm also really curious if the Raptor SATA would improve the performance much on my G4 with regard to track counts and streaming large piano samples, etc.
Tom