I'm thinking of getting WD Raptor, or a bigger but slightly slower 7200...Hmm...I want Hitachi!!! Is WD740 really that much better than 7200RPM drives? I'm actually interested in the faster seek time. I find the Seagate quite slow compare to my old D740X!
The seek time is actually limited by its rotation speed. All hard drives with the same rotation speed will have the same seek time. Actual seek speed will also be affected by areal density. So, the higher the density, the faster the seeks, even if the seek time is the same.
right now Im using 2 raptors in a RAID 0 array (TCQ disabled) and honestly I hardly feel any significant improvement except my OS installation now takes only <15mins then again, i've been using raptor for more than a year and I don't really remember how the 7200rpm day was like.. chai: if you want to try the 75gb model before buying it (to see if it really improves ur experience), let me know. i can grab one test drive for you (that machine, AMD still haven collected it back )
