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I also think a raptor is overkill for gaming. I would just go WD black/blue and be done. But that's me.
I take it you have your OS on an SSD?
But from what i read, im a few years to late on the raptor train, and should buy me a 2TB HDD for half the price?
A separate SSD is a much better option. You can use it to either dump on all your Operating System for massive boot performance or as a much larger cache for a standard or even high performance HDD.
I would recommend using a Western Digital Black Edition 1-2TB HDD with a smaller 64-128GB SSD as cache over the top. So long your motherboard supports it. You install Intel Rapid Storage Technology. Under that you have Performance > Intel Smart Response Technology. Clear/format out the SSD without a drive letter and it should give you the option to accelerate another drive with that SSD as a RAID_0 setup.
The Velociraptor (10,000 RPM) is about double the performance of a Hybrid SSDs hard drive. The difference is Hybrid SSD has just a small cache, normally 8GB, which it can put a little onto to speed up faster (SSD hasn't any moving parts, it's just like flash memory). However, your much better off as separate drives. Intel Smart Response offers up to 64GB caching on separate SSD, plus you keep a higher performance drive for what isn't cached on it.
So many decisions, and all i wanted was a new gamer harddisk :)
But thanks for the input all.
It sounds like you already have your OS on a SSD? Therefore the Velociraptor could already be used as an overkill storage / gaming drive. If you want your overkill to be driven up into insane - You could even put another smaller SSD as cache over the top of that HDD.
I personally use:
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB (64GB used as smart response cache) over a Western Digital Black Edition 2TB - and that is already seriously blazing for my gaming...
I have the S840EVOPRO 128 pure OS SSD, and will exchange the raptor for a 2TB WD black
Use SSD for OS drive and Black for Game Installs (secondary Steam Library) and u should be fine. Black HDD are quite fast as-is. The SSD for your OS drive however will make the most difference in all this. WDC-Black HDD of 1, 1.5, 2 TB seems to be the better drives, while 3 and 4 TB versions are not as fast.
DO NOT buy "WD Caviar Black" these are OLD model as of months ago and replaced by "WD Black Series" which are revised, faster, updated firmware.
As for SSD, pretty much any model from Samsung or Intel have been quite reliable and well worth it.
Installing games to a hdd almost defeats the purpose of getting a ssd.. your os will run fast but now your gaming will be affected..... anything that needs to be installed on your os, should be installed on the same drive and same partition. Doing anything else can only complicate things. HDDs are for storage now.
Just get a 256/512 ssd and only install games that you play. If your connection is bad backup and move them to your storage hdd.
Then use WD Blue or Black for storage