Harry, IN the Storagereview article they said WDC was going to make a version of the drive with the SATA connectors in the correct placement. Also, WDC could just replace the Icepak 3.5" Part and use something different. WDC will lose a large part of the community with the current build of the Velociraptor.
I myself think the drive will work great for the gaming machines. It's fast, quiet, cool and low of power. I am also thinking if any notebooks will get this drive, but most of those are going for SSDD hard drives. Regards, Tim "The Beave" Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] VELOCIRAPTOR 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 > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Naushad, Zulfiqar >> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [H] VELOCIRAPTOR >> >> Pretty intense!!! >> >> Performance is fantastic in some cases. >> >> > > > >
