*NEW* 150Gb Raptors

[The Halk]

16MB NCQ and it'll be king of drives on every single benchmark again. SATA2 or not.

Big question for me is this. Since 7.2K drives have drastically improved in speed and noise, has the Raptor?

 

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Hmmmm, Sounds really nice but sure is going to be expensive

 

[Cyber-Mav]

yea at over 200 quid for the 150 gig raptor im sure people will convert over to scsi.

 

[Zip]

Hmmm I might put a couple of these on my to save for list, just one thing tho whats an SAS drive?

 

[kinggost]

Big question for me is this. Since 7.2K drives have drastically improved in speed and noise, has the Raptor?

With this new one comeing out sureley they got to bring out a new revision to the older 74gb

Hmmmm, Sounds really nice but sure is going to be expensive

Will sureley be double the price

yea at over 200 quid for the 150 gig raptor im sure people will convert over to scsi.

I remember them tho where for like 20gb it was like £200 at least your getting 150gb and you dont have to buy expensive leads and cards and all bits

 

[Cyber-Mav]

sas i believe is serial attachment storage device.

 

[Zip]

sas i believe is serial attachment storage device.

Is it an upcoming technology or is already out? and is it much of an improvement of SATAII.
Sorry i havent had a computer for the last 8months or so, so im not up to date with things anymore

 

[mosfet]

SAS stands for Serial Attatched SCSI, a current/next-gen storage device interface that's pin-compatible with current SATA drives.

Read more here:

http://www.lsilogic.com/sas/

 

[The Halk]

Aha. Am I grasping this correctly by thinking that SAS is where SCSI and SATA meet, and eventually there will only be SAS drives?

 

[geeza]

WD don't make an SCSI drives. The raptors are their competition to other companies SCSI drives.

I thought raptors are poo compaired to a scsi u320 drive and the main idea of a raptor being that people can afford them. as suggested above by max power at $400 americans at least can get a nice scsi drive for a smaller price

 

[The Halk]

I don't think Raptors are inherantly worse than SCSI drives, but as far as SCSI drives go they are far from the most expensive of them, and bear in mind SCSI drives go to 15K, while a Raptor is 'only' 10K.

 

[mosfet]

Western Digital don't serve an enterprise market, they don't make SCSI drives. The Raptors aren't there to compete with SCSI, but they saw a gap in the prosumer/enthusiast market that wasn't being filled by enterprise SCSI devices.

Because they have no SCSI business, the Raptors pose no threat to their own sales in this sector - in other words they have nothing to lose.

 

[benjo plz.]

Meh Seagate Cheeta > WD Raptor.

 

[smids]

Main problem with SCSI is the expensive cabling/connectors (for conversions) and controllers. Isn't a decent one a good £100+ - especially now most of us would need a PCI-E card, as there is not much point in PCI SCSI. I don't know too much about SCSI but please correct me if I'm wrong. TBH I love my 74GB Raptor RAID - lightning fast and quieter than a 15K SCSI setup.

 

[Combat squirrel]

dont know why someone doesnt just get a 15k scsi drive, rip its innards out and slap on a sata2 interface, job done, 15k sata2 drive

 

[smids]

dont know why someone doesnt just get a 15k scsi drive, rip its innards out and slap on a sata2 interface, job done, 15k sata2 drive

Only Western digital would do that - and they haven't yet .

 

[tomos]

they dont need to go to that kind of expense. 10k rpm drive sell well enough i would assume.

would love a 15k one tho

 

[Messiah Khan]

Does anyone know if 15,000rpm is a physical limit to drives, or can we expect to see 20k, 25k etc in the future?

 

[tomos]

i hope they dont bother trying, much better to move to solid state drives

 

[Duke]

Always been a fan of the Raptor series - I've had both 36 and the current 74 models and will upgrade to the 150 if it's noticeably quicker