Yeah, definite mistake there, means they won't fit a Mac Pro either.
(since that uses drive sleds)
On 22 Apr 2008, at 18:47, Harry McGregor wrote:
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
