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Well it's all over the web now but Western Digital are bringing out a new Velociraptor - 1 TB!
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20
Sort of pointless for most people since SSD have been out.
+1 not sure how popular these will be at that price point
Can't see myself ever needing access to that much fast 'storage' over a regular drive.
Even if you did, I'm sure this would be a better idea:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £93.98
1 x Corsair CSSD-C30GB Accelerator Series 30GB Solid State Drive £61.99
Total : £165.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).
2TB of fast storage for slightly cheaper
Used to have a 72GB Raptor.
Never again, way too loud. Just get larger more dense drives.
Random Access time on a HDD is moot these days.
SSD for Random Access
High Density HDDs for Storage
Taking if off the heatsink for laptop use would be nutty to be honest. It's going to get hot hot hot!
SSD's may be great for ego and bragging rights but I have yet to see them give a real world performance benefit that validates their price
I click Photoshop CS5 Icon - 1 second later I have a usable workspace.
Windows Logo to Desktop - Less than 10 seconds.
As soon as I am at the desktop - I click 5 App shortcuts 1 after the other. All 5 apps pop.
AV/Malware Scan - Done in single digit minutes.
Searching for files/registry entries/other - Near instant.
SSDs warrant their price tag for the usage they are designed for. They are not good value as a storage proposition (£/GB) but nobody uses them for storage.
My SSD was the single biggest upgrade I have ever made in a system in terms of day-to-day usage.
2600k over a 2500k is something you could call a bragging right purchase if you do not utilise HT, for example. But an SSD has absolute tangible benefit over a HDD and is probably the least ego based/bragging right purchase you can make.
I......
Just.....
Troll?
If you have not noticed a tangible, real world, perceptible difference going from a spinning disk to a SSD, you are doing it wrong. What a rubbish post.
I upgraded from a OCZ Vertex 2E to a 600GB Velociraptor I got form OCUK and was very very happy. According to the benchmarks it was a lot slower but as I'm a human and I don't work in nanoseconds I didn't really see and notable performance hit. WoW took a second or two longer to HS to Stormwind but losing 1-2 secs on something you do once or twice a day didn't bother me nor did boot times as I never sit there and watch my system boot anyway (if I turn it on when I get up ill do it on the way out the room to brush my teeth, if I turn it on when I get in from work it will be as I enter the room before I take off shoes/jacket and prob make a drink).
Actually considering my post was full of information and genuine personal experience and yours was just full of personal insults I guess mine wasn't so rubbish after all eh?