New Raptor HD's from WD

[Papi4baby]

Check it out, new raptors now are 150GB, and still 10,000 rpm with better performance.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=158

[Cicchetti]

Re: New Raptor HD's from WD

awsome i have been waiting for one with more gigs

[1dsandtrap]

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I have a 7200 rpm hardrive if I were to get a 10,000 rpm would I see a big difference?

[Papi4baby]

Re: New Raptor HD's from WD

I would not say big, but there is a difference, maybe like 3 to 4 seconds faster loading the game, and that's not on raid. Remember the rest of the hardware also has to be pretty good.

[andymil]

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o snap those are sweet. and they arent as expensive as i thought they were gonna be. 299 is pretty good, im gonna get rid of my old ones and get 2 of those when i have the money.

[gsxr310]

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i would probably opt for a 16mb cache hd for storage/games. much cheaper than buying the new raptors. and use a 74GB raptor(s) in raid0 for the OS/programs.

[Sir. MatDef]

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Yeah, but the new raptors also have a 16mb cache, so I'm definately picking up at least one.

[gsxr310]

Re: New Raptor HD's from WD

Yeah, but the new raptors also have a 16mb cache, so I'm definately picking up at least one.

hmm... didn't even realize that! :laugh: well then, i should've waited before i bought my 74gb raptors!

[gsxr310]

Re: New Raptor HD's from WD

do you think WD uses 2 74GB platters or one large 150GB platter? Also, it seems that WD will be releasing an updated 74GB version w/ 16MB cache as well (74GB Raptor V3).

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: New Raptor HD's from WD

do you think WD uses 2 74GB platters or one large 150GB platter? Also, it seems that WD will be releasing an updated 74GB version w/ 16MB cache as well (74GB Raptor V3).

Prob two platters, but I don't know, all I really know is that the speed boost should be pretty big.