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    At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

    Info on the drive.

    Okay, so it is a a 10K rpm drive and so far the benchmark results have shown that the additional 2.5K rpm has sped reading and writing up but in all honesty I would be too scared to use the thing.



    With more than six years of searching the internet and two boxes of hard drives stored in my basement I have never seen a drive that is so small yet requires such a massive heatsink (and if you narrow down the field to drives used in PC's and not proprietary systems, any kind of heatsink at all).
    Ventilation would be a must and if someone had these in a RAID configuration, well there better be at least two fans on that drive cage.

    Other than that it seems like a good drive though with it's $300+ pricetag for just 300Gb of space I could not see myself getting one any time soon.
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    Re: At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

    look at the specs... it only draws ~6W which is less than what most 3.5" disks need.
    2.5" disks run cooler anyway, so it's not gonna get MUCH hotter than a conventional 7.200rpm hdd with those fins I suppose.
    if there's a moderate airflow, a massive aluminium block would probably work, too.
    if the case design is crap however, even these fins won't help much. good they have a 5-year warranty.

    not that i wouldn't trust it (WD is still on my personal "good" list) but you get TWO samsung HD103UJ (1TB, 32MB cache, yeah) for the same money.
    Last edited by kikkoman; 04-25-2008, 03:22 AM.
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      #3
      Re: At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

      looks like a SAS 2.5" with a sata connection instead, in a 3.5" frame

      SAS 2.5" are already with many installations in enterprise rackmount servers
      first time i saw them i thought if it is so small how can it be reliable.
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        #4
        Re: At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

        I would love to have this drive in an c2d laptop would make a really good desktop replacement.
        I hate expensive laptops with 5400rpm hdd`s only to get the runtime on the paper longer.

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          #5
          Re: At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

          yes it would be a dual purpose machine. notebook and sandwich toaster
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            #6
            Re: At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

            I also thought about my laptop! But its to tall damnit!

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              #7
              Re: At first Glance: The new WD VelociRaptor

              Pentium, the heatsink is so big because it adapts a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" slot. It has too few fins to be able to cool a very heating drive, so the drive itself doesn't heat much or WD made a wrong heatsink. Only time can reply.
              I think high speed drives aren't really a bargain: too expensive as disk drives and not many advantages over SSDs: Raptor strong point is its reduced latency wen compared to normal hard disks, but it's still higher that flash based devices (4 ms vs typical 0.1 ms).
              Just my 2 cents.

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