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Raz1r
04-29-2008, 11:25 PM
Western Digital VelociRaptor

http://www.wdc.com/global/images/products/frnt/300/wdfDesktop_GLFS.jpg (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459)


Price: $300
3.5" with WD-ICEPAK
SATA-II 3GB/s
300GB size
10,000 RPM
2 platters, 4 heads


Wish I had $300 to blow on a HDD...
My Upgrade comes to $282.70 with shipping, lol.

NightrainSrt4
04-30-2008, 08:18 AM
Cool. I saw this a week or two ago. The cool thing is that it is actually a 2.5" drive and the heatsink makes up the rest.

Ahhh, but too much money for a hard drive for me. Never had much issue with waiting for boot times or even loading times.

The boy 4rm oz
04-30-2008, 09:37 AM
The good news is I have already seen a price drop in the 32 and 74BG drives. I want to get myself a 74GB drive for vista and a 750GB-1TB drive for the rest of my stuff.

Raz1r
04-30-2008, 01:46 PM
I've been hoping for a more mainstream solution, maybe a 3GB/s 150GB drive in 3.5" (no Ice-pak)

J-Roc
04-30-2008, 07:27 PM
Its about time!

I'm assuming the ICE-Pack is essential for cooling that thing.

NightrainSrt4
05-01-2008, 06:41 PM
Its about time!

I'm assuming the ICE-Pack is essential for cooling that thing.

More than likely ya. As from the quick glance I had when I looked at it a while ago the connections looked like it would fit right into a laptop as the connections look to be in the same spot. But I'm betting that thing pumps out the heat and thats why they say not compatible with laptops.

The boy 4rm oz
05-02-2008, 04:04 AM
Your probably right there. A lap top sized drive that spins at 10,000 rpms, there is gonna be a tone of heat there.

Crimson Sky
05-02-2008, 08:24 AM
I love the Raptors--a great midway point between 7200 RPM and 15k SCSI.

I still prefer my 15K Fujitsu SCSI ($900 each) for that 2.2ms seek time ;)

jdbnsn
05-02-2008, 01:31 PM
I still prefer my 15K Fujitsu SCSI ($900 each) for that 2.2ms seek time ;)

If those are what you have in Doom3, then I agree. Those were niiiicccceeee!!!

Crimson Sky
05-02-2008, 10:41 PM
If those are what you have in Doom3, then I agree. Those were niiiicccceeee!!!



yeah thats what the OS is on...blazing fast, but I bet these new Raptors in Raid0 are quite speedy.

mtekk
05-28-2008, 01:03 PM
Just a heads up, these are now available at Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136260&Tpk=velociraptor), I have one on it's way, hopefully it'll get here by this weekend :banana:

Raz1r
05-28-2008, 10:02 PM
Sweet! Tell us how it does.

nevermind1534
05-28-2008, 10:20 PM
And how hot it gets

mtekk
06-02-2008, 07:32 PM
It arrived today (darn UPS being slow). Will test tomorrow night. It's thicker than I had thought, it's even thicker than the old thicker 2.5" drives (in circa 1998 laptops). No way am I going to fit it in my vostro 1400, not that it was going in there anyways.

mtekk
06-03-2008, 09:17 PM
Noise wise, with the side panel off of my case I can just barely hear the velociraptor, so it's not that loud, I'll switch my 6600GT with my passively cooled Radeon 9600 should be easier to distinguish between sounds that way. Heat wise, I transferred five DVD ISOs from my main hard drive (5400RPM :() and it only got up to 25C, while my main disk got up to 44C (a little too high for my liking) ambient is ~19.5C. So that's not bad, and that's with no fan or moving air across it.