maverik-sg1
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I thought the new western digital 400GB was a great drive too? I am asking the question really - I think I saw today it has Raptor like access times with SATA2 performance.
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Phil Stanbridge
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maverik-sg1 said:
correct. The newest drives are promising
maverik-sg1
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Decisions, decisions - like a kid in a sweet shop again - damn you new technology!!!
name='maverik-sg1' said:
Are you sure about the access times, AFAIK it still has a 7200rpm spindle speed and as such will necessarily have a much higher access time, looking at storage review, no drive can get within 3ms of the raptor without a 10k spindle speed in average random access write times, and it's more like 4ms for read times.
If im wrong i would love to see how they have done it, that would be incredible.
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Phil Stanbridge
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I was speaking to a techy guy about this recently and he assured me that the new 16mb SATAII drives (spinpoint in particular) are *almost* as fast as a 74gb raptor.
I would be interested to see how they determine almost as fast, i can see it in terms of transfer rates, but im personally sceptical they can do much about the latency of the spindle simply because of the speed difference.
Certainly sounds good though, hopefully WD will bring out a new raptor with this technology in it and it will rule (i love my raptor)
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Certainly sounds good though, hopefully WD will bring out a new raptor with this technology in it and it will rule (i love my raptor)
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maverik-sg1
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Master_G said:
I love mine too - never had the inclination to go RAID - but running SATA is good enough for me.
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