Western Digital Raptor 10K RPM SATA Drive

[GT98]

Damn this thing is breathtaking...both in price and performance.

http://westerndigital.com/en/products/WD360GD.asp

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?catalog=14&DEPA=1&submit=property&mfrcode=0&propertycode=&propertycodevalue=4570,4271

[Kooldino]

From what I read about them a few months back, they're good and bad. They'll mature in time.

[The PIT]

The bad was with an earlier firmware I believe. The retail release version was much faster when tested.

[Gurm]

Noise?

NOISE???

If it's louder than the new Seagate ATA's, I'm just not interested. There's no excuse for anyone to not be using that new liquid-filled bearing technology. Mmm... silent.

- Gurm

[The PIT]

Well my fans would drown the rattling out anyway so I wouldn't be bothered.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Just put a GeForce FX in and you'll never complain about HD noise again.

[The PIT]

Unless you turn on a 3D screen saver and that you'll get a crackling sound and realtime smoke effects.

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by Kooldino
From what I read about them a few months back, they're good and bad. They'll mature in time.

That Storage Review article was with a beta Raptor. They just did a review with the production model and it killed every other ATA drive, and was on par or better than the 10k rpm SCSI drives.

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200303/20030320WD360GD_1.html

It was also quieter than most 7200 rpm drives as well.

Jammrock

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by The PIT
Unless you turn on a 3D screen saver and that you'll get a crackling sound and realtime smoke effects.

More like a nuclear decay effect

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
More like a nuclear decay effect

LOL

[SpiralDragon]

system noise.. what system noise.. i have a drgaon case...

here is a description of my rig

P4 2GHz
Intel 850MV2 Mbd
2x256MB RDRAM PC800

PM : Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM
PS : Maxtor 60GB 7200RPM (40GBs of mp3s and 18GBs of my archives

SM : Teac 40X CD-RW
SS : Pioneer 16xDVD

AGP: Matrox G550
PCI1: Empty
PCI2: Promise Tech FastTrack ATA-100 RAID TX2
Strip 1: 3x40GB (111GBs) WesternDigital 7200RPM HDDs
Strip 2: 1x40GB Seagate 7200RPM HDD

PCI3: 10/100 LAN Card
PCI4: Creative Audigy Platinum

PSU: 450w

System Fans: 4x80mm (+PSU FAN +CPU Fan)
2 back, 1 front, 1 side

Every time i have to record something in my room i have to dumb an entier matris over my PC to make it silent....

[Chucky Cheese]

SATA Crazy

I'm thinking about rebuilding in a year or so and I was really considering SATA drives...these look good. Hopefully there will be SATA DVD drives and burners widely available by then. The small cable should make for a clean cable arrangement.

cc

[Tjalfe]

I just got a Seagate 80GB SATA drive for my new computer.. it is quite nice.. very quiet, and much faster than the old WD 9.1GB SCSI drive I used to boot with
damn thing uses the new type power connector, so I had to spend ~$10CDN for an adapter

[The PIT]

Now thats anohter thing I like about my MSI 875p Neo. They even give you the power adaptors for SATA as well. Pity I haven't got any but in time.

[Sethos]

Yeah I saw a review on this thing freakin' AWESOME this is as close as you can get to SCSI and it'll actually get close to the 133 transfer rate that we've all been drooling over for so long...the only problem that I've heard is that it's not really all that great for just normal desktop user type use, it's more of a power user/home server use, but that should change pretty soon...but deffinatly AWESOME!!!

~Sethos