Are Western Digital Raptor SATA drives good?

Hi,

I'm builing my new rig, and I was very happy with my current raid configuration, and I want to repeat it on my new rig.

But the only SATA drives that are 10K rpm are Western Digital Raptor 36Gb, do you guys think they are good for a SATA Raid 0 configuration?

Do anyone have any problems with Raptors?

Thanks for any replies,
Abula

Go to following url and then click on Leaderboard button, Raptor is fastest 10k spin HD: http://www.storagereview.com/

i have two in a raid 0 config they are extreamly fast u wont be disapointed.. and no problems as of yet.

OS-Wiz,

Thanks for the link, there was a good review there. I think I will go with the raptors, the only thing that I do like more is space, but this will be a gaming rig, so I think I could live with 70Gb in raid.

Slinks,

Thanks for the comment, you have a great rig, you have more or less what I'm looking for, maybe you can help,

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Thanks,
Abula

They are fast, but also the first of their kind. WD did make some 10K drives years ago though. I would wait a while when they make say the second generation of these drives.