Raptor or Barracuda? Which would you pick? 1

[wahnula]

Hello,

I have the option of using either a 36GB 10K Raptor (not the new 3GB) or a partition on my 320GB Seagate 7200.10 for installing my OS & apps.

Sandra benchmarks: Raptor Barracuda
Drive Index: 60 MB/s 72 MB/s
Random Access Time: 8ms 13ms

So one has faster throughput and the other a faster seek time. Seems like six of one, half a dozen of the other to me, but I need to make a decision...which one would you pick for your OS location??? Opinions and rationale greatly appreciated.

Tony

 

[paparazi]

wahnula
Clearly the Raptor as the boot drive and the Barracuda for the storage.

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[wahnula]

paparazi,

Thanks for the response yes I know that is the logical setup, but I am not always a logical person! I just was not aware of the effect of a faster transfer rate on OS performance. Since I have a pair of the 7200.10 drives I will set them up in RAID 1 for the data.

Cheers mate!

Tony