Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB WD3000GLFS! - Page 2

*polonyc2* · 04-23-2008, 08:09 PM

that's good to know...I'm very happy with my new WD RE2 500 GB WD5001ABYS drive so I'll stick with it for the forseeable future...I hope they start making the VelociRaptor's in 500+ GB capacity in the near future...then it would get very tempting

seems like WD has estanlished itself as the only option when it comes to storage now...Seagate seems to have faded in the background

CK8-04 · 04-23-2008, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SRTDodge05

If they make that in a 2.5 forum, does that mean a laptop could be seeing a raptor soon?

No for two reasons: one, they output way too much energy to be kept even remotely close to cool if mounted inside a laptop and, two, these drives have almost double the thickness of a standard laptop drive at 15mm whereas a laptop drive is 9mm thick. These drives' thickness match that of Seagate's Savvio lineup which are also 2.5" drives. The enterprise version of these drives will be shipped without the IcePAK to become the Savvio's competitor.

**Sandog** · 04-24-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by XJ.

According to StorageReview.com the 300 is quieter than the 150. I'm very happy with the 150, the 300 will make a nice upgrade in a year or so.

I agree. Might be tempted to return to this single Raptor in 6-12mos. I have used all three versions of Raptors in RAID at one point. My last set of 150GB's were too noisy in my Lian Li case.

iMogal · 04-24-2008, 09:01 PM

How come only WD is making 10,000rpm drives??
You'd think after 5yrs with the raptor series, somebody somewhere would hop on the 10krpm bandwagon too!

Wheres the competition?!?!

XJ. · 04-25-2008, 09:59 PM

I'm just guessing that they are motivated to produce drives with higher areal densities and larger capacities. They are happy with 80% of the performance and 3X the capacity.

Fortunately WD thinks differently :-)

wcg12 · 05-14-2008, 04:37 PM

Any idea when they should be hitting the shelves?

04-23-2008, 08:09 PM	#16
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04-24-2008, 09:01 PM	#19
iMogal Zoom Zoom... Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 1,182	Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB WD3000GLFS! How come only WD is making 10,000rpm drives?? You'd think after 5yrs with the raptor series, somebody somewhere would hop on the 10krpm bandwagon too! Wheres the competition?!?! __________________ SilverStone LG-08 Asus P5E-VM HDMI Intel e2180 O/C'd 2.85Ghz (8x355) 2x2Gb G.Skill DDR2-1000 (5,5,4,14) (2:3 533Mhz) Maxotr 120 Gig SATA 8Mb HIS 3870 Iceq3 Turbo 850 Corsair HX620 Modular PSU Dell UltraSharp 2407FPW Monsoon MM-700 2.1 Speakers __________________ PC = Box of lost hours
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XJ. ... Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NH, USA Posts: 6,063	Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB WD3000GLFS! I'm just guessing that they are motivated to produce drives with higher areal densities and larger capacities. They are happy with 80% of the performance and 3X the capacity. Fortunately WD thinks differently :-)
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05-14-2008, 04:37 PM	#21
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