Whacky Raptor ?

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

Has anyone heard anything about WD making a hybrid raptor? I've been searching around and I tried to email WD but they didn't have anything for inquiries or whatnot.

 

[grtmoby]

what do u mean with "hybrid raptor" :roll:

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

Hybrid as in Hybrid HDD as in HDD+Onboard flash memory.

 

[tool_462]

Haven't heard anything about it other than someone in the "Conventional Harddrive Obsoletism?" thread, I believe, stated something like "WD should make a Raptor with like 1GB flash based cache and normal storage on 10k rpm."

Other then that, haven't heard anything or read anything.

Doesn't mean it's not true though.

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

Yeah, I think it would be great. Boot off of the cache and use the fast platters to run apps.

 

[RichPLS]

The new Raptors have 16MB of cache... :roll:

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

I know.... I was referring to the like Flash mem if they made one with a flash hybrid in it. Lol, I have a raptor in my comp... 150GB... it's fast... especially with linux.

 

[Codesmith]

Hard drives with built in flash memory are useless until Windows Vista is released.

Even then why bother. The system works just as well with a USB thumdrive + regular hard drive.

BTW the flash memory used has a much lower transfer rate than a hard drive. The peformance gain is from lower latency.

Thats why the Raptor peforms better on real world benchmarks against drives with the same tranfer rate.

And why RAID 0 isn't always that great.

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

Ahh... I see... thanks for the info...

I don't use RAID 0, the performance gain isn't big enough for me.

 

[Codesmith]

Don't get me wrong. There are some uses for which RAID is not only usefull, but downright essential.

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Anyway I just don't see these hybrids catching on. Especially when I hear about motherboard being equipped with interal flash memory ports. (USB 2.0 + fast thumbdrives for now, but latter maybe something faster)

Seems like it would make a lot more sense to keep the memory on the motheboard rather than have it built into the hard drive.