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  1. 03-07-2003, 04:18 PM #1
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    WD 10,000prm hard drive preview

    There's a preview of the hard drive here.

    And for the lazy, here's a quick summary:
    "As impressive and respectable as bringing a 10,000 RPM drive to the Serial ATA market is, the Western Digital Raptor, in its current state, does not cut it. The drive exhibits all of the characteristics of a 10,000 RPM SCSI drive, including the high pitched whine (arguably more annoying than either of the SCSI drives in this roundup) and very low access times, but without the overall performance of the 10,000 RPM SCSI drives we're used to."

    Looks like the new WD is a dud
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    I think the drive that they tested was a beta drive so some of the scores were bad. This new technology will get better over time.
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    doesnt compare to the SCSI, but will it whoop any IDE drive out? I'll think about getting one oce i see the price
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    Read the preview. It is a beta version, but they recieved the hard drive after it was finalized and began shipping to suppliers. Also, it gets whooped by scsi AND ide drives on quite a few tests.
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    Re: WD 10,000prm hard drive preview

    Originally posted by AverageJoe
    There's a preview of the hard drive here.

    And for the lazy, here's a quick summary:
    "As impressive and respectable as bringing a 10,000 RPM drive to the Serial ATA market is, the Western Digital Raptor, in its current state, does not cut it. The drive exhibits all of the characteristics of a 10,000 RPM SCSI drive, including the high pitched whine (arguably more annoying than either of the SCSI drives in this roundup) and very low access times, but without the overall performance of the 10,000 RPM SCSI drives we're used to."

    Looks like the new WD is a dud
    It has a whole bunch of things in its way.

    -It is the first of a kind.
    -It is a beta

    -I *think* the controller was a PCI addon card. You can not get real SATA performance off the MB right now. A PCI-Express addon card would probably be OK but they don't exist yet.

    -Notice the drive is only 36GB?

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