WD Introduces Fastest Ever VelociRaptors HDDs

[Tmanishere]

[citation][nom]claykin[/nom]Those who use it usually learn the hard way. After that they swear off RAID 0 as a viable option.[/citation]

I second that notion as well.

 

[jonathan1683]

They should have made 100-250GB versions, I do not need that much space for a primary drive and I would want to put them in raid0 with $300 I can buy a SSD much faster. I do not know why they think we need 10k raptors for large data storage.

 

[ewood]

[citation][nom]captainnemojr[/nom]as i said in another post, the new Caviar Black 640 has a 64mb cache and is SATA 6gb/s and spins at 7200 rpm and is $80 bucks. This one just spins faster and is 4X more expensive just for 2800 rpm with all else being equal except LESS cache. That's crazy and definitely not worth the faster few seconds I'd get on Windows loading or a game load to me. Better off getting 2 Caviar Black and running in RAID 0.[/citation]

except average seek times, average latency, path to path seek times and average write times... other than than those things they are the same as the caviar black...

 

[TemjinGold]

[citation][nom]jonathan1683[/nom]They should have made 100-250GB versions, [/citation]

They most certainly should not. If it was that small, I'd rather get an SSD at these prices OR get like a Caviar Black if the velo was cheap. At this size, it is trying to fill a niche that neither currently does (not saying it's filling it well.)

 

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]HansVonOhain[/nom]Still very expensive. For about 100 dollars more you could get yourself a 160gb SSD which is faster, quiter(silent) and much more power efficient.[/citation]
These are impressive.
Patients is virtue and I will wait the extra second or two for my game to load and save a bunch of cash.

 

[Aoster87]

I think WD is beating a nearly-dead horse here. Sure the Velociraptor drives were great and all, but they can't touch the performance of a SSD.

Additionally, I ran two different systems with RAID 0 for 5 years altogether and never once had a problem with it. Faster than a raptor, never a crash. Seagate HDD's for the win.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]Ooooooor, get an SSD.[/citation]

or 4 and raid them trust me it's worth it. i've had my 4x ssd in raid 0 for over a year and no problems.

 

[nebun]

some benches would be nice

 

[noggie12]

[citation][nom]claykin[/nom]Hee, hee. Either:1) You've been lucky and never had a disk crash.2) You don't value your data much.3) You take images of your disks daily so when a disk dies, you can get back up and running quickly.RAID 0 is not for the average user. Those who use it usually learn the hard way. After that they swear off RAID 0 as a viable option.[/citation]

well, i have never had an issue with Raid 0, and ive been using it for almost 5.5 years...

 

[kelemvor4]

Or you can pick up a 1.5Tb drive for $100, partition it to 600Mb and even use the rest for a second partition (you might have to do this with your raid controller). Get the same performance for a whole lot less. http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=658

These puny drives selling for so much money are a total joke (unfortunately the joke is on consumers who buy them).

 

[noggie12]

agreed Kel.
i have had no issues at all with Raid-0. runs perfectly fine for me. but i would like to get 2SSD's in raid for my boot drive and use my 600g sata drives for storage, i kno it aint much but yea.

 

[noggie12]

yeah, i was just gonna use SSD for the OS

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]noggie12[/nom]well, i have never had an issue with Raid 0, and ive been using it for almost 5.5 years...[/citation]

ditto for not that long. i only have problems when i mess around with the system like overclocking and stuff like that...even then the raid never gets corrupt (4x ssd raid0)