New 74GB Raptor Available!!!

[Slackworth]

We now have the new 74GB Raptor in stock with 16MB Cache and Native NCQ support.

Buy Now!!!

 

[Messiah Khan]

Cheers for the heads up adwhitworth.

Edit; Intersting that the seek time has gone up by a tiny bit. Someone buy one of these soon, so we can see some HDtach data please.

 

[davetherave2]

I might just have to get one so that I can add it to my collection of raptors and go from a raid 5 set to a 4 disk raid 0 and see what sort of speeds i get out of it.

 

[BubbySoup]

Does this mean it now performs near enough the same as the 150Gb model?

 

[FirePhoenixCtk]

any reviews available?

 

[Messiah Khan]

Official site;
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=244&language=en


Review; (In dutch, so your going to have to translate it with babelfish or something, but you can still look at the pretty pictures.)
http://tweakers.net/reviews/621

Edit;

Does this mean it now performs near enough the same as the 150Gb model?

If you look at the above review, it seems its even faster than the 150Gb version

 

[Phemo]

Pants. I checked early this morning for these as I've been waiting for them for 2 weeks and I decided to order something else instead. That'll teach me, now I guess I'll have to spend more money

 

[easyrider]

the 150 is a smooth piece of kit

 

[Participant]

Why is the new 74Gb Raptor still only SATA instead of SATAII?

Probably v-noobish question but can someone enlighten me?

 

[FirePhoenixCtk]

Why is the new 74Gb Raptor still only SATA instead of SATAII?

Probably v-noobish question but can someone enlighten me?

i asked this also on another forum. It seems that the full speed is not used so they stck with sata 1 interface

 

[Messiah Khan]

SATA1 is 1500Mbps max transfer rate. SATA2 is 3000Mbps max transfer rate. The raptor however, only reaches about 80Mbps, obviously more if in RAID0, but as you see... nowhere near the maximum rate of SATA1, so no point making int SATA2 really.

 

[green rizla]

SATA1 is 1500Mbps max transfer rate. SATA2 is 3000Mbps max transfer rate. The raptor however, only reaches about 80Mbps, obviously more if in RAID0, but as you see... nowhere near the maximum rate of SATA1, so no point making int SATA2 really.

so is it worth an upgrade over the 8mb 74gb version?

 

[Messiah Khan]

If you look at the review I posted a bit up the page, you can see that the extra cache and NCQ have added a decent boost in performance over the older 74gb drive. What this equates to in real life performance is hard to say, but if your feeling rich, then yeah i'd say its worth it.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

SATA1 is 1500Mbps max transfer rate. SATA2 is 3000Mbps max transfer rate. The raptor however, only reaches about 80Mbps, obviously more if in RAID0, but as you see... nowhere near the maximum rate of SATA1, so no point making int SATA2 really.

You're along the right lines, but its ACTUALLY 150MBps for SATA1, and 300 for SATA2... no idea where 1500 came from, the raptor reaches about 70-80MBps afaik.

If you were going for Mbps, you need to times by 8 too, and not confuse the transfer rate values XD

 

[james32]

SATA II does not mean 3Gb/s

 

[kyhoola]

Does anyone know if these are noisy like the previous raptors?

 

[PureAppleJuice]

I think you can assume they will be, yes.

 

[kyhoola]

I think you can assume they will be, yes.

Pity

Thanks.

 

[ajgoodfellow]

The 74GB is quieter than the 36GB

It's very quiet on idle, just noisy on seek. I'm fine with this as it means that I can have a quiet PC and I don't mind if it's noisy when seeking - at least I know it's seeking then!

Looks very nice though - I might get one and RAID it with my current 74GB Raptor

 

[Participant]

^ Will the array not still only run as fast as the slowest disk?