Some help please

petrolhead · #1 (**permalink**) 11-14-2004, 06:22 PM

Hard Drives.

Does anyone have any experience between the Raptor and Baracuda. I am wanting ny cake and eat it in as must as I want quiet and perfromance. Is the Raptor a lot noisier than the Baracuda?

Video Cards:

Can anyone recommend a video card.

MY spec so far is Asus Mobo, P4 3.4, 1gig ram, Aopen DVD Writer

Marc Peters · #2 (**permalink**) 11-14-2004, 06:39 PM

In my experience, the Raptors are VERY noisy in disk access... and I have insulated my PC.

petrolhead · #3 (**permalink**) 11-14-2004, 06:57 PM

Thats what I had read in Toms......

He favours the Baracuda for quietness and recons the performance gain is slight.

I notice you have Raid. The mobo will allow me to Raid 0 and I could by 2 x 80Gig Baracudas for the price of 1 Raptor

Is it worth it?

Any thoughts on Vid Card, ie what are u running?

Marc Peters · #4 (**permalink**) 11-14-2004, 07:02 PM

Don't bother with the RAID in my opinion. Sure, some will argue that you get a performance boost, but just as many these days say it simply isn't worth it!

I've got a Seagate Baricuda in my HTPC. A lot quiter.

petrolhead · #5 (**permalink**) 11-14-2004, 07:18 PM

Thanks

Any thoughts on a graphics Card?