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Bindibadgi · 22nd Apr 2008, 10:36

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04..._hard_drives/1

Western Digital has announced the VelociRaptor, the successor to the hugely successful Raptor hard drives and it claims to be the world's fastest drive.

samkiller42 · 22nd Apr 2008, 10:53

Want for Raid 1 config. Hopefully the UK market wont get hit hard with the prices.

Sam

Edit. Scan UK have these listed on their site here. Uk Price is £252.61

Arkanrais · 22nd Apr 2008, 11:09

interesting, though I don't even have enough money for an old 150GB raptor.
I remember seeing SCSI drives that went 15000RPM and up to 300GB at said speed. perhaps they could be a better buy for the speedfreaks(in addition to a suitable raid card for SCSI connector{s})

Baz · 22nd Apr 2008, 11:26

$300 = £252

still, 300gb of super fast storage is very tempting, even at that price premium.

[USRF]Obiwan · 22nd Apr 2008, 11:45

I can have a 2 terabyte for that amount of money.

Bindibadgi · 22nd Apr 2008, 11:45

But it's a genuine performance difference and unfortunately you can't overclock slower hard drives

It's enterprise level for consumers.

FooSai · 22nd Apr 2008, 11:47

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Originally Posted by Baz

still, 300gb of super fast storage is very tempting, even at that price premium.

Seriously? the price premium is 6x... I'd much rather have a 1.5TB raid10 array than one of those, it'd be about the same price.

But then they aren't exactly meant to be good bang for buck now are they

Nexxo · 22nd Apr 2008, 12:02

The price will come down soon enough. What we have in the mean time is smaller, lighter, faster, quieter, cooler, more power efficient. Win all around.

Boswell · 22nd Apr 2008, 12:04

lol wtf is Scan doing with those prices...I will pay the shipping and buy from the US thanks

neonplanet40 · 22nd Apr 2008, 12:36

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Originally Posted by Boswell

lol wtf is Scan doing with those prices...I will pay the shipping and buy from the US thanks

Yea and get hit with tax, vat and import duty. So you would end up paying about £350 anyway.

Mister_Tad · 22nd Apr 2008, 13:01

I'll be picking one up next time I'm in the states - I suspect the UK price will take a nose dive as soon as these are actually available, but would be surprised even then to see it less than £200

Would be nice to see 150GB and 74GB models on the way, home users don't need 300Gb of fast storage.

Redbeaver · 22nd Apr 2008, 13:46

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Originally Posted by Mister_Tad

Would be nice to see 150GB and 74GB models on the way, home users don't need 300Gb of fast storage.

ditto.

Faulk_Wulf · 22nd Apr 2008, 14:45

Well if you have every high-end game then that's getting to be almost 8-10gb a game.

(Also $1 a GB doesn't sound bad to me. Especially for Raptor speed?)

Mister_Tad · 22nd Apr 2008, 14:49

A raptor doesn't do much (if anything) for games - just OS and apps

In a typical config you would have a raptor as an OS & app drive and a fast 7200rpm drive for games and storage

1ad7 · 22nd Apr 2008, 15:43

I do the oposite, fast 7200rpm for windiows apps and storage and all games and other performance stuff on 150gb raptor. I do notice a difference not in fps but in load times, about twice as fast load in bf2.

Hg · 22nd Apr 2008, 15:46

i went for 2x500GB HDDS in Raid 0
these infact http://www.custompc.co.uk/labs/11408...6-hd501lj.html
super fast and happy with them, too little too late for the raptors as most people i know are looking at raid 0 if they need perfromace.
Also as the HDDS increase in size platter density increases so times seek/read times decrease so the cap between normal HDDs and raptors will fall

Redbeaver · 22nd Apr 2008, 16:08

i'd love to put 2x150 in RAID-0. but 2x300? that's... overkill for my taste. i'll b tempted to put too many stuff on it, and when the whole thing fails... poof. smaller the better for me. not so much for money i suppose. 1Gb/$ is darn good for the performance.

Firehed · 22nd Apr 2008, 16:08

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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

But it's a genuine performance difference and unfortunately you can't overclock slower hard drives

It's enterprise level for consumers.

True, but the gains you see in daily use are next to nothing. Unless you actually have enterprise-level needs (RAW HD video footage or photoshopping insanely huge files), the bottleneck still tends to be the computer pondering about what it should do with the data for a while.

Redbeaver · 22nd Apr 2008, 16:44

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Originally Posted by Firehed

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

But it's a genuine performance difference and unfortunately you can't overclock slower hard drives

It's enterprise level for consumers.

True, but the gains you see in daily use are next to nothing. Unless you actually have enterprise-level needs (RAW HD video footage or photoshopping insanely huge files), the bottleneck still tends to be the computer pondering about what it should do with the data for a while.

i have to disagree.

on paper (im not 100% sure), the data output rate of any component in your computer is significantly higher than your harddrive. therefore, increasing a significant boost to ur HD rate (if ur coming from a barracuda 7200.9 to this velociraptor)(i love that name btw), will boost ur overall performance by a significant value as well.

on practice, coming from 80gb 7200.9 to 2x80Gb RAID-0 feels a heck lot more than 'next to nothing'. <disclaimer: results may vary :P>

Primoz · 22nd Apr 2008, 16:57

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Originally Posted by Redbeaver

ditto.

Ditto as well.

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The VelociRaptor needs only two platters to reach its 300GB capacity. Western Digital says it's also working on a single-platter version of the drive, but that's not ready yet.

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14583/2 <- in between the two pics. Now we just need a single platter 74 gig model that's limited to the outer half of the surface and the speed graph will fall down even less

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Bindibadgi Richard Swinburne bit-tech Staff Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Omnipwntent Posts: 28,264	But it's a genuine performance difference and unfortunately you can't overclock slower hard drives It's enterprise level for consumers. __________________ Made you look, made you stare, made you clicked this in your underwear! Den of Geek!

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Baz Benchmarketeer bit-tech Staff Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ruislip Posts: 588	$300 = £252 still, 300gb of super fast storage is very tempting, even at that price premium.

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Mister_Tad Serious about coffee Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham Posts: 7,556	I'll be picking one up next time I'm in the states - I suspect the UK price will take a nose dive as soon as these are actually available, but would be surprised even then to see it less than £200 Would be nice to see 150GB and 74GB models on the way, home users don't need 300Gb of fast storage.

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