Greg Sevart wrote:
Indeed. StorageReview's piece specifically made it look damn impressive. Most
interesting, however, is that they were able to dramatically improve multi-user
performance (and hence enterprise appeal) without dropping single-user
performance (enthusiast appeal). You usually have to optimize for one or the
other. True enterprise-like multi-user performance of the previous generation
Raptors wasn't that great compared to SCSI/SAS 10k drives. Gen IV makes them at
least competitive.
I'm hoping we see a single-platter 150GB model shortly after the 300GB becomes
available mid May--and hopefully at a good price point. I don't care about the
space--I have a 6TB RAID6 array for capacity. With the 300GB model carrying an
MSRP of $299, a ~$200 150GB drive would be about ideal.
Western Digital made a fatal mistake, which will keep me from using many
of these drives.
The drive is a 2.5" drive in a heatsink. Instead of putting the drive
in the middle, and using an extension cable set to put the SATA and SATA
power connectors in the "correct" location, they put the drive at the
back. This means that I can't use the drive in a sata/sas hot swap unit.
Harry
Greg
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Pretty intense!!!
Performance is fantastic in some cases.
