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Been offered two Raptors, one 150GB and one 74GB, for £90 posted... both have around 18 months useage. Apparently no whines, clicks or bad sectors on either.
I was thinking of using one as an OS drive and one as a scratch drive for Photoshop, will this be worth it over my current partitioned 6400AAKS?
Or should I save my £90?
Cheers :rockon2:
my opinion is avoid 2nd hand drives in their entirety. The first one (and last one) I bought involved 3 returns to sleaze gate over a 12 month period as they kept sending repaired drives which were equally as butchered as the original i had idiotically procured.
I wouldn't bother. Velociraptors and ssds are the ones to get now. These are pretty crap in comparison.
While I'm sure the drives are probably fine, given the raptors are pretty solid beasts from what I have read, it doesn't seem worth it.
They will probably help but I would just put the money into a velociraptor if you want the extra speed.
Coolbies... it's what I thought, but just wanted to confirm with the esteemed members of the forum.
I shall save my £90 for now :)
cheers
£90 is a good price though....
I paid about £70 for a secondhand RaptorX about 12 months ago. So thats not a bad price.
I think they're still for sale if you want them... He's actually selling them seperately, £60 for the 150GB and £40 for the 74GB.Quote:
Originally Posted by GSte
Maybe I should snap up the 150GB one... :juggle:
get the 150 m8 :)
Do you reckon it'd make a noticeable difference?
To put it in perspective, for a tad over £70 you can get a brand new 1TB Samsung F1 which isn't far off the Raptor 150 in performance...
I have a Raptor 150 and the Samsung F1, but I got the Raptor several years ago. A lot of "regular" HDD's have court up in performance now.