Building New Computer - Hard Drives Question

[Eversmen]

I'm looking to build a new computer, but I'm not to familiar with hard drives. Is a Western Digital 300Gb VelociRaptor really worth it for $200 for only 300gb? I was looking at that and a Western Digital 1TB hardrive, but people have given me mixed stories on whether to buy WD or Seagate.

 

Western Digital VelociRaptor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136322&cm_re=Western_Digital_Velociraptor-_-22-136-322-_-Product

 

Western Digital 1TB:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136313

[Ultramarine]

I'm looking to build a new computer, but I'm not to familiar with hard drives. Is a Western Digital 300Gb VelociRaptor really worth it for $200 for only 300gb? I was looking at that and a Western Digital 1TB hardrive, but people have given me mixed stories on whether to buy WD or Seagate.

 

Western Digital VelociRaptor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136322&cm_re=Western_Digital_Velociraptor-_-22-136-322-_-Product

 

Western Digital 1TB:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136313

 

the 300GB one has 10000 RPM, which means it has high data transfer rate / read rate, etc etc.

 

the 1TB is 7200 RPM, which is also good.

 

I would advise getting the 1TB HDD, mainly due to personal experience with 300-400GB HDDs running out of space too fast.

[Daze]

Do you want storage space or performance power? You can answer your own question.

[Eversmen]

That's the thing, I have no idea how hard drive speed can affect performance.

[Akaru]

Unless you are an extreme hard core gamer, I'd say a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive is more than enough. I am running a 7200RPM drive and my computer can boot up in under 20 seconds. With the Velocirapter 10000RPM hard drive, my computer can probably boot in 10 seconds. From what I know, hard drive is the biggest bottleneck in existance. You can have the best processor, RAM, video card, and motherboard, but if you have a slow hard drive, you will be slowed down.

[ReGIONALS]

i would get a 80gb WD Hard drive and a 1tb the 80gb for your operating system and the TB for everything else

[Guy]

The western digital black 1tb drives are only marginally slower then the velociraptor drives for most usage patterns, I wouldn't suggest the big price increase for shaving a few seconds off of load times.

 

The reason a 7200rpm drive of that size is almost the same in speed as a 300gb 10k drive is because of simple mechanics. The 1tb drive has two 500gb spinning platters, while the raptor as two 150gb platters. They physically measure the same in size, but for every read/write operation the raptor has to make, it has to move the hard drive head 3.5 times further on the spinning disk platter. This creates a delay in switching between various places on the disk drive.