dear Lord....Velociraptors are here

[cybermaniac]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-209-WD

Capacity: 300GB

Spin Speed: 10,000RPM

Seek Time: 4.2ms

Jebus...me wantz!!!!

apart from this fact: £193.86 inc VAT

 

[!TIMMY!]

Just think of 2 in Raid0! Brum brum...

 

[cybermaniac]

If i had £400 to waste.........hell yes.

 

[JN]

Mummy!

 

[w3bbo]

Watch for all the 150gb raptors to start appearing on the bay soon

 

[cybermaniac]

just got me a 74 raptor for £40

 

[wigseryc]

how loud are these new things then?

 

[Nick R]

I heard around 35-40dBa.

 

[cybermaniac]

how loud are these new things then?

Acoustics

Idle Mode

29 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 0

36 dBA (average)

Transfer Rates

Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)

3 Gb/s (Max)

Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)

120 MB/s (Sustained)

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459

Let me put it in perspective for u:

Yate Loon 120x120x25 D12SM-12 1650rpm

Model: D12SM-12

Dimensions:120x120x25mm

Rated Voltage: 12 Volts

Operation Voltage: 6.5~13.8 Volts

Input current: 0.30 Amp Max

Operation temperature: -10 to +65 C

Storage temperature: -40 to +70 C

RPM: 1350 +/- 10%

CFM: 70.5

dB: 30

http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=5116&cat=283&page=1

 

[Rastalovich]

just got me a 74 raptor for £40

I wouldn`t mind some of that action.

No fudging way I`m spending £200 for 300g, unless it`s some1 else`s money.

 

[Mr. Smith]

What makes me laugh is you can get 2 for $500 last I saw... Now if that was the UK price (£250 for TWO!) I'd be interested/sold as SSD's are too small and expensive.

 

[cybermaniac]

What makes me laugh is you can get 2 for $500 last I saw... Now if that was the UK price (£250 for TWO!) I'd be interested/sold as SSD's are too small and expensive.

not to mention the reports that there is a 1 in 3 chance of failures in the drives.

 

[Bungral]

not to mention the reports that there is a 1 in 3 chance of failures in the drives.

That will improve as the technology moves on.

 

[SuperRoach]

I talked about these on my podcast...

The ICEpak that it comes with I'm a bit worried out. Its all good and all that it is in a smaller form factor, but I think its nonstandard. Its 2.5inch, but with the standard height of a normal desktop drive. The ICEpak is needed to mount it properly in a case. The actually utility of it is for that, not for cooling...

 

[cybermaniac]

tbh, they probably did it for both reasons.

see original raptors, they have a much smaller type of "ICEpak" on them.

also, remember, most 5'25 bays are metal, thus they will assist with the transference of heat.

 

[Nick R]

I think the "ICEPak" casing is necessary, 10,000 RPM drives run pretty hot and making them smaller will only worsen the problem.

 

[inonefly]

i'll stick with my 150gb raptor for now and wait the price drop to 150