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Old May 4, 2008 | 11:37 pm
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nd_eric_77
 
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Originally Posted by deubster
Dewd, you're gonna be so disappointed in 7200 RPM after living with a Raptor (I have 2 in a RAID 0, backed up by a huge HD). RAID 1 will slow it down even more.
So far, its not as bad of a step-down as I thought it would be... the fact that the new drives are the later generation of SATA helps (Raptor was 1.5 Gbit/s; Seagates are 3.0 Gbit/s)...

The drive loss is the hard part... having to re-install everything is a PITA.
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