new raptor called velociraptor

PowerSlide · 21st Apr 2008, 07:03 PM

300Gb of goodness and unique cooling feature at least to me

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS | StorageReview.com

Velociraptor : le disque ultrarapide de Western Digital

price will be around $300

Mac Daddy · 21st Apr 2008, 07:05 PM

Nice looking drive might be a bit more than I want to spend on a 300G drive though.

Isadar · 21st Apr 2008, 07:31 PM

I was just reading about this.. I heard you can fit it into a 3.5" bay also using the heatsink it comes with.

Chai · 21st Apr 2008, 10:10 PM

Wow! This drive is something! Better than any other SATA in everyway, except the price!

ChampionLLY · 21st Apr 2008, 10:23 PM

oops, I just realized that I posted the same thing @ the news section...

Adrian Wong · 22nd Apr 2008, 03:08 AM

Yeah, they will need to look into the heat... But eventually, 10K rpm for everyone???

jasperchc · 22nd Apr 2008, 07:25 PM

10k rpm, is it faster than sata2?

Chai · 22nd Apr 2008, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasperchc

10k rpm, is it faster than sata2?

Why do you want the drive to be faster than SATA2, which is impossible?

JMMD · 23rd Apr 2008, 06:37 AM

It does look nice. I do wonder why they went with 2.5" with 2 platters instead of 3.5" with a single platter. Of course I'm not a hard disk engineer so maybe there's a good reason. I did read they were planning on doing a single platter version of the 2.5" at some point, 150GB is plenty for my boot drive.

Adrian Wong · 23rd Apr 2008, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasperchc

10k rpm, is it faster than sata2?

10K RPM is the spindle speed. SATA2 is the interface. They are totally different.

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JMMD Just Started Join Date: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 28 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	It does look nice. I do wonder why they went with 2.5" with 2 platters instead of 3.5" with a single platter. Of course I'm not a hard disk engineer so maybe there's a good reason. I did read they were planning on doing a single platter version of the 2.5" at some point, 150GB is plenty for my boot drive.