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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

lexluthermiester said:
Yeah. As long as you mount them in a metal chassis case with proper airflow, the heatsink tray wasn't needed.


Heck yes they did!!
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Damn you, now I'm seriously thinking of getting one when I have some extra to spend.. :laugh:
 
lexluthermiester said:
Here's stateside, they're still reasonably priced. In the EU? no idea..
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A quick check from ebay shows that they aren't THAT bad in EU... well, I can get a similar or bigger SSD with the same price or cheaper, but with retro hardware, that isn't the thing. :)
 
Lenne said:
They were practically the best you could buy before consumer SSDs came.

I still want a Raptor, must get one some day.
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I have never heard of them so if anyone mentions anything I don,t know about I look it up. :)
The Western Digital Raptor (often marketed as WD Raptor, 2,5" models known as VelociRaptor) is a discontinued series of high-performance hard disk drives produced by Western Digital first marketed in 2003. The drive occupies a niche in the enthusiast, workstation, and small-server market. Traditionally, the majority of servers used hard drives featuring a SCSI interface because of their advantages in both performance and reliability over consumer-level ATA drives.
Although pitched as an “enterprise-class drive”, it won favor with the PC gaming and enthusiast community because the drive was capable of speeds usually found only on more expensive SCSI drives
 
I still have two 300GB Velociraptors in RAID 0 in use in the rig I had in my office at the radio station when I retired. Storage use only and not a lot of time on them. I haven't fired up that PC in several months.

I have a pair of dead original 36GB Raptors and some dead 74GB ones here too. I have no logical idea why I keep some of the things I do.
 
Greenslade said:
I have never heard of them so if anyone mentions anything I don,t know about I look it up. :)
The Western Digital Raptor (often marketed as WD Raptor, 2,5" models known as VelociRaptor) is a discontinued series of high-performance hard disk drives produced by Western Digital first marketed in 2003. The drive occupies a niche in the enthusiast, workstation, and small-server market. Traditionally, the majority of servers used hard drives featuring a SCSI interface because of their advantages in both performance and reliability over consumer-level ATA drives.
Although pitched as an “enterprise-class drive”, it won favor with the PC gaming and enthusiast community because the drive was capable of speeds usually found only on more expensive SCSI drives
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They're 10000rpm drives, something what consumer drives weren't ever as they're just 7200rpm on their best.

Practically server-grade drives made for desktop enthusiasts.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Here's stateside, they're still reasonably priced. In the EU? no idea..
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The cheapest one on eBay here in Blighty is £8.99 *Excellent Condition. Fully tested and working. (may show signs of usage as in scratches or sticker ”That seems a good price,it is all so make an offer.

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Even though there's practically no sense of getting one these days, we hobbyists still get "useless" shit because we love older hardware :D

I may seriously consider of getting a Raptor.
 
From extensive personal experience avoid any pre-2009 Velociraptors and any under 300GB. I started buying them when the original 36GB models came out and went through several under warranty. WD finally quit making them and switched to the 74GB models. They replaced my last two dead 36GB's with those plus let me keep the dead drives. Those were prone to failure as well. WD surprised me and sent me a nice new 300GB drive when my last 74GB died. I bought another and put them in RAID 0. Both were still working fine as of last January. I'm getting ready to take the rig they're in apart and may sell them. Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 3 Gb/s 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD3000HLFS : Electronics (amazon.com)
 
bobbybluz said:
From extensive personal experience avoid any pre-2009 Velociraptors and any under 300GB. I started buying them when the original 36GB models came out and went through several under warranty. WD finally quit making them and switched to the 74GB models. They replaced my last two dead 36GB's with those plus let me keep the dead drives. Those were prone to failure as well. WD surprised me and sent me a nice new 300GB drive when my last 74GB died. I bought another and put them in RAID 0. Both were still working fine as of last January. I'm getting ready to take the rig they're in apart and may sell them. Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 3 Gb/s 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD3000HLFS : Electronics (amazon.com)
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How long they lasted until they died?
 
Lenne said:
Even though there's practically no sense of getting one these days, we hobbyists still get "useless" shit because we love older hardware :D

I may seriously consider of getting a Raptor.
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or we just never throw anything away. :laugh:

Five out of six of mine still work.

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The fastest Velociraptors were the xHTZ series (the latest one). They came in 250, 500 and 1000 GB capacities. I have two of these, one in my secondary rig (21k hours with zero errors), and another one used for cold storage. I also have the second generation 74 GB model in my XP retro PC. While the older drives were quite noisy, the latest ones are actually quieter than many contemporary HDDs.
 
Wish you guys were stateside. I have 36's and 74's I'd just give you.
They're hot bitches. Burn your hand hot.
 
Mr.Scott said:
Wish you guys were stateside. I have 36's and 74's I'd just give you.
They're hot bitches. Burn your hand hot.
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Would be too expensive to export those to here :cry:
 
How come lower-rated CF Compact Flash cards work out dearer to buy?
2Gb £9 and yet 32Gb only costs £16? The same make from the same seller.
And why are the MB ones dearer than the Gb?

High Speed CF Memory Card Compact Flash CF Card for Digital Camera Computer​

These are the cheapest ones on eBay.
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Greenslade said:
How come lower-rated CF Compact Flash cards work out dearer to buy?
2Gb £9 and yet 32Gb only costs £16? The same make from the same seller.
And why are the MB ones dearer than the Gb?

High Speed CF Memory Card Compact Flash CF Card for Digital Camera Computer​

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DON'T go with the cheapest ones!! Get name brand and buy the high quality! Seriously!
 
Greenslade said:
It would cost an arm and leg to send to the UK, I suppose it would be about the same to Finland .
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I guess... even you guys had Brexit, it was somewhat similar to buy something from mainland Europe or from UK few years ago.

Though weird that I've bought few old console games from Australia and they were cheap to import, did UK affect those or did I just had good luck? That was also few years ago, before Brexit.
 
QuietBob said:
The fastest Velociraptors were the xHTZ series (the latest one). They came in 250, 500 and 1000 GB capacities. I have two of these, one in my secondary rig (21k hours with zero errors), and another one used for cold storage. I also have the second generation 74 GB model in my XP retro PC. While the older drives were quite noisy, the latest ones are actually quieter than many contemporary HDDs.
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Yeppers, I still have half a dozen of the 250gig XHTZ drives and they all still work great.

Jeez, now it makes me want to do a RAID system with them........ :p

They have been sitting for a couple of years without doing anything with them. Dang it.

Maybe a Win pro 2000 RAID or something like that. :laugh:
 
I had a bunch of 36's in Raid0 for benching PCMark5 back in the day. Then SSD's showed up and the fat lady sang.
 
I used to run 4x Raptor 150s in raid, one of them had the window, and out of those 4, 3 died, and I had traded one to a friend and it had died a year later. I am pretty sure they were from before 2009. I got into SSDs when they were like 250 bucks for 64GB. Those Raptors sounded like an industrial coffee perc when they moved in unison.. so loud! Especially in my old Stacker STC-T01.. it was like an echo chamber :D
 
My first 4 SSD's I didn't pay for. They were review samples when I was at ClassicPlatforms. All from Patriot.
Still use them to this day. Not the fastest, but still kills a spinner. No question they're durable. Been almost 10 years.
 
Mr.Scott said:
My first 4 SSD's I didn't pay for. They were review samples when I was at ClassicPlatforms. All from Patriot.
Still use them to this day. Not the fastest, but still kills a spinner. No question they're durable. Been almost 10 years.
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The oldest I have now is an Intel 520 120GB.. it’s not bad! It’s in my moms Ivy Bridge Dell laptop. I did have a 120GB Revo Drive, but it died.. well half of it did. Still a little bummed because it was pretty badass. I bought it new in package for like half the price locally from a crackhead on Kijiji. We met at a donut shop frequented by cops and he was nervous af heheh.
 
freeagent said:
The oldest I have now is an Intel 520 120GB.. it’s not bad! It’s in my moms Ivy Bridge Dell laptop. I did have a 120GB Revo Drive, but it died.. well half of it did. Still a little bummed because it was pretty badass. I bought it new in package for like half the price locally from a crackhead on Kijiji. We met at a donut shop frequented by cops and he was nervous af heheh.
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I wish I could have given a thumbs up and a laugh at that statement!!!!!! :laugh:

I'll be he was nervous as hell. LOL
 
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