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04-21-2008, 12:09 PM
|  | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | WD's New VelociRaptor Shows Drive Innovation
Anyone looking at building a new rig should take a look at Western Digital's New Hard Drive Quote:
Western Digital's VelociRaptor, the company's latest 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) drive, changes that. One of WD's big innovations on the VelociRaptor is its IcePack heat sink. You can't miss this integrated, black heat sink: The drive is securely mounted onto it, and the heat sink acts as the mounting apparatus to adapt the 2.5-inch VelociRaptor for a 3.5-inch drive bay.
According to Western Digital, the thermal temperature ratings on this drive are about the same as its predecessor. But the heat sink serves to reduce the drive's temperature by about 5 degrees...
In one of its most impressive feats, the VelociRaptor required just 89 seconds to write 3.06GB of files and folders, besting the next-best drive in our chart, the Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB, by 32 seconds--a 26 percent improvement.
| Price: $300
I'm just always excited for tech innovations, and for a drive that spins at 10,000 rpm, I think this is pretty awesome.
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04-21-2008, 12:11 PM
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 : 89 th | | | yeh :thumbdown:
mechanical drives are dead. SSD ftw |
04-21-2008, 12:19 PM
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: 64 th | | | yuh =\
they do have 15,000 rpm too ><
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04-21-2008, 12:25 PM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dukefrukem 
mechanical drives are dead. SSD ftw
| $300 for 300GB, or $2,000 for 64GB... |
04-21-2008, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by YankeeDeuce | It's $1400 for a 64GB. 
But ets develop it more efficient and get that price down. We've been running mechanical drives since the birth of the pC (excluding tapes). What ever happened to holographic? SSD will be the new hotness not lets get it affordable and reliable. |
04-21-2008, 12:31 PM
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| | | yeah, but this is really showcasing the heat sink they used in this.
the 10,000 300gb hd is half the price of a 15,000 300gb hd
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04-21-2008, 01:08 PM
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: 42 nd | | | Wait, so it's a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" heatsink...
meh.
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04-21-2008, 04:59 PM
|  | om mani padme hum | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: All over Canada
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| | | Comparison to the 150Gb raptors?
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04-21-2008, 10:28 PM
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| | | Too bad I wouldn't touch a Western Digital Drive with a ten foot pole. I had 2 die on me. One was the week before final exams and I lost a term paper I had been working on all semester. Nearly failed my college course because Western Digital Drives are unreliable. However, the innovation in itself will be good because trusty Seagate will start putting heat sinks on their drives as well |
04-21-2008, 10:46 PM
|  | You Magnificent Bastard! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | nice drive tech. We've got about 2 years before SSD comes around in price, so I'm all for it.
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