Raptor prices
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why even bother considering a raptor with these new ssd's coming out
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Yeah Raptors are a waste now. SSD's are all over them and even the latest 7200rpm drives can exceed the Wraptors in outright transfer rates.
WD wasted their opportunities imo. They should have priced them at a reasonable rate and created higher capacities to make better use of that high spindle speed and increase the transfer rates far beyond the mainstream drives.
We all know it's possible as the SAS drives manage it, WD have just been lazy and hoped the Raptor name alone would do the job in selling the drives.
WD wasted their opportunities imo. They should have priced them at a reasonable rate and created higher capacities to make better use of that high spindle speed and increase the transfer rates far beyond the mainstream drives.
We all know it's possible as the SAS drives manage it, WD have just been lazy and hoped the Raptor name alone would do the job in selling the drives.
For the price of the 300gb I could get a 64gb SSD. I run a lot of VMs but everything else is stored on a NAS so the hard disk doesn't have to be huge
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They are slowly loosing ground.
I have my 300gb VR and Im happy with it. I have 160Gb of stuff installed (Many many games, applications etc) But I have files etc stored on my WHS. 64Gb would be nowhere near enough for me. The seek times and access rates are still half that of a standard 7200rpm drive, so they are still quicker at response times. However, they do need to be cheaper to sell.
I have my 300gb VR and Im happy with it. I have 160Gb of stuff installed (Many many games, applications etc) But I have files etc stored on my WHS. 64Gb would be nowhere near enough for me. The seek times and access rates are still half that of a standard 7200rpm drive, so they are still quicker at response times. However, they do need to be cheaper to sell.