The end of the 10k Raptor

Winfried Dobbe · April 21st, 2008, 12:18 PM

WD must have been reading this thread and responded quickly:

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release={5ABC5B81-92EE-470F-8FAE-A2191EB887F4}

Yi Fong Yu · April 21st, 2008, 01:27 PM

read the preliminary reviews on that. i think 7200.11 is still better. most of us don't require that speed demon, we need capacity! plus, it's still not TWICE as fast as the larger capacity perpendicular drives.

what gives me hope is that @120MB/s, you can put 2 of those together in raid0 and get around 558GB of 1080p 4:2:2 uncompressed! all u need is a laptop and that's pretty amazing =D. that's close to an hr worth of 1080p! =D.

Robert Lane · April 21st, 2008, 01:51 PM

I wouldn't rely on any Raptor to be a solid performer for pushing out content (remember the Seagate and Hitachi TB drives have twice the on-board cache which makes a huge difference) but this new Raptor might make an excellent boot/OS drive.

Josh Chesarek · April 22nd, 2008, 04:45 AM

Numbers from the new drive, note that they are using an engineering sample...

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the...ard_drive_ever

Robert Krupka · April 25th, 2008, 01:22 PM

According to Bare Feats, the Samsung Spinpoint F1 outperforms the .11 and costs less too!

The VelociRaptor is really interesting with its 2.5"+heatsink form, but the fact that I can't use it in my FirmTek enclosure breaks the deal for me. I don't understand why they couldn't design it with the SATA connectors in the standard place.

Damon Gaskin · April 25th, 2008, 03:47 PM

Yes, that is what the raptor drives have always for me been good for was boot/os drives. The cost per GB was simply too high and the performance really was unneeded. But then again, I am not running uncompressed. I still would at this point since I have used both on my edit systems use the Seagates. As the other person stated, they are extremely high performing in raids and the Cache is very high which leads to a great editing experience for two and three drive raids.

April 21st, 2008, 01:27 PM	#17
Yi Fong Yu Trustee Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Vulcan Posts: 1,564	read the preliminary reviews on that. i think 7200.11 is still better. most of us don't require that speed demon, we need capacity! plus, it's still not TWICE as fast as the larger capacity perpendicular drives. what gives me hope is that @120MB/s, you can put 2 of those together in raid0 and get around 558GB of 1080p 4:2:2 uncompressed! all u need is a laptop and that's pretty amazing =D. that's close to an hr worth of 1080p! =D. __________________ bow wow wow

April 22nd, 2008, 04:45 AM	#19
Josh Chesarek Major Player Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Winter Park, FL Posts: 978	Numbers from the new drive, note that they are using an engineering sample... http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the...ard_drive_ever __________________ Simple Thought Productions - Life @ 30,000 Words per second

April 21st, 2008, 12:18 PM	#16
Winfried Dobbe Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Amersfoort, Netherlands Posts: 85	WD must have been reading this thread and responded quickly: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release={5ABC5B81-92EE-470F-8FAE-A2191EB887F4}

April 21st, 2008, 01:51 PM	#18
Robert Lane Go Go Godzilla Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ USA Posts: 2,823 Images: 15	I wouldn't rely on any Raptor to be a solid performer for pushing out content (remember the Seagate and Hitachi TB drives have twice the on-board cache which makes a huge difference) but this new Raptor might make an excellent boot/OS drive.

April 25th, 2008, 01:22 PM	#20
Robert Krupka Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New York Posts: 26	According to Bare Feats, the Samsung Spinpoint F1 outperforms the .11 and costs less too! The VelociRaptor is really interesting with its 2.5"+heatsink form, but the fact that I can't use it in my FirmTek enclosure breaks the deal for me. I don't understand why they couldn't design it with the SATA connectors in the standard place.

April 25th, 2008, 03:47 PM	#21
Damon Gaskin Major Player Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn Hills, USA Posts: 217	Yes, that is what the raptor drives have always for me been good for was boot/os drives. The cost per GB was simply too high and the performance really was unneeded. But then again, I am not running uncompressed. I still would at this point since I have used both on my edit systems use the Seagates. As the other person stated, they are extremely high performing in raids and the Cache is very high which leads to a great editing experience for two and three drive raids.