WD 74GB Raptors - Soon

ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Hardware
They're coming. And they look to be FAST, tho expensive.

First seen linked from AnandTech.

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  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I saw the preview of these a couple of months ago and nearly wet myself. I'm starting to save up for a couple of them.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I have the "old" raptor and it's a dream. Totally silent compared to the JB's and much less heat.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    DanG had this to say
    I saw the preview of these a couple of months ago and nearly wet myself. I'm starting to save up for a couple of them.
    Save up is right! Did you see the price of those suckers? :eek2::eek2:
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    Mackanz had this to say
    I have the "old" raptor and it's a dream. Totally silent compared to the JB's and much less heat.

    Ditto. Couldn't be happier. They are amazing drives, although mine are a little noisier when operating in RAID mode when compared to my JB's.

    The new 74 GB Raptor's have a better read seek time average when compared to the older 36.7 GB'ers (4.5ms -vs- 5.2ms) and a better Track -to- Track seek time (0.6ms -vs- 0.7ms).
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited November 2003
    keto had this to say
    They're coming. And they look to be FAST, tho expensive.

    First seen linked from AnandTech.

    Storage Review: WD740GD Raptor Preview
    The single-user performance delivered by this WD740GD engineering sample ranks among the most impressive we have yet measured. Further, the new Raptor's noise floors when both idle and seeking compete with those of the quietest 7200 RPM ATA drives. The lack of command queuing, however, causes WD's drive to stumble a bit in multi-user scenarios when contrasted with SCSI units. Remember, however, that the manufacturer's press release and literature has explicitly referred to the advantages that queuing will deliver- we'd be surprised if the feature did not make its way into the shipping product.
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited November 2003
    A friend of mine threw an engineering sample raptor against a seagate 10K scsi, and the raptor holds its own.

    For single drive solutions, these new puppies might just change the way we look at drives.

    But in large raid arrays of 5 or more drives, scsi still shines.
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