Barracuda 7200.10 or WD Raptor? 4 Audio drive

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I need a new Audio drive...

I recently read @ Toms Hardware that the 7200.10 is a pretty good performer. It's newer Technology so who knows how it will hold up.

I'm either going to geta 10k 74G Raptor and another HD to make backups to or get 2 of the 320G Barracuda 7200.10 and run them in Raid 1... easy backups.

What's your opinion? Would I see much better performance running the Raptor as my Audio drive? or other ideas?

I do all Audio no midi or samples.

Thanks,
B.
 
the raptors are very noisy and twice the money of the Seagate barracuda and if you are mainly doing audio you may find it too noisy .There is another Seagate you may want to look at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 branded as whisper quiet.
As for raid there has been some cases where the raid interfers with the sound card (there was a note of it on the m-audio web site) i dont know how old it is they may have cured it by now.
If you went with raid 0 it would speed up the audio transfer ,but the down side is if one of the drive goes tits up you've lost everything.

its all swings and roundabouts which way you go...

ps i've just read this and i dont know which way i'd go,it all depends on where
your pc is and how quiet is it.

hope this helps...........
 
I would go with the Seagates. If you are taxing their speed capabilities, than you have other issues on the way as well.
 
the raptors are very noisy
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I run 4 of them and they are no noisier than any other hard drive. My cheetah is crazy loud though. I got my 74 gig raptors for $115 each so look for deals. New egg has open box ones for $125 right now.

Raptors are wonderfull and I doubt I would change them for anything other than the 150s. My machine does not get turned off ever and the raptors have served me well for over 2 years.

That being said, the segate is a nice drive
 
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Thanks for the input. Noise is really no concern... My PC is routed outside my tracking room. It's sweet not having any PC sound to deal w/ and the silence is nice at times too.

I really like the idea of the Raptor... I'd probably get the 74 though... the 150 is just a little too much.

Off the top of my head the I think the 7200.9 didn't get to high of a score compared to other drives... BUT the newer 7200.10 did very well coming close to the raptor. I read this stuff last week so I'll try and verify all that and post back this weekend.

B.
 
I think you'll find the Seagate more reliable. WD has always been sort of a bottom of the barrel kind of drive, IMHO. I've had Seagate drives retired after almost a decade of 24x7 operation without a single bad block or other hiccup. I have a WD in my TiVo that's already whining a death squeal after two years under similar conditions.
 
Any 7200 rpm drive on the market today is more than capable enough to handle gazillion simultaneous tracks. There's really no need to opt for 10k rpm drives.

Higher rpms also really pay off when you need to get data loaded that's scattered across the drive in a lot of small files. That's when the reduced latency is at its best. With audio files you have large files with sequentially stored data.

People have been using computers for recording for years now and the era that hard drives couldn't keep up is far far behind us. I started on a 5400 rpm drive and it served me well.

In other words: I'd say go the 7200rpm route and keep some money in your pocket.
 
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