Western Digital Launches VelociRaptor 300GB - The World's Fastest SATA Hard Drive

[mdm-adph]

Why? The 256GB SSD beats this thing so far into the ground, that you can't hear it's load, thunderous roar anymore.

Aye, but I don't have to sell my children just to get the funds to buy a VelociRaptor 300GB.

 

[newtekie1]

HERE YOU GO I DON"Y THINK THERE VERY BIG IN GB'S

HERE'S SOME THING ELSE I FOULD

SAS =/= SATA

You can not use a SAS drive on a SATA controller. You can, however, use a SATA drive on a SAS controller.

Seagates cheetahs have always been 15K even on IDE... but they just dont seem popular. i dont know why that is.

I thought all the Cheetahs were SCSI, not IDE.

Why? The 256GB SSD beats this thing so far into the ground, that you can't hear it's load, thunderous roar anymore.

Does it do it for $300? No, it does it for $3,000. $300 gets you about 16GB in solid state drives.

 

[WarEagleAU]

Very nice. About time they brought these in line with the capacities, to an extent. Price should be a tad lower though.

 

[DaC]

Pointless

Not much faster than Samsung spingpoint F1 of 1TB. And much more expensive.
Personally I would get 2 of 750GB on raid 0 as said by others before....
Or to burn more money, two of 1GB and smoke velociraptor.....

 

[spearman914]

Whats the "Real" difference only 150 GB more?

 

[WhiteLotus]

sata is just interface...they have ssd with sata interface...

this thing looks nice but i think the future of hdd is solid state imo

yea i know but i don't really know what the current disk format is called - just called SATA for the simplicity as most (well me) differentiates the two in that way.

 

[thoughtdisorder]

Very nice. About time they brought these in line with the capacities, to an extent. Price should be a tad lower though.

+1 on everything you said. Hopefully the prices will fall relatively quickly after the initial explosion of sales dies off....

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well with a lot of SAMSUNG spinpoint hard drives starting to give the god ol' raptor a run for their money - Samsung being overly faster, 80% more bang for buck & out performs raptor in most tests its high time that WD came out with something faster to fight the opposition - sadly i have to agree - SSD's are the future - with Samsung also being in the memory market im sure they are way ahead of WD when it comes to getting out some SSD drives.

 

[Azazel]

price a little high for me ...id rather spend it on something else

nice though

 

[twicksisted]

to add more to this, SATA 1 is 150MB/s and sata II is 300MB/s
Even the fastest terabyte drives these days cant keep going at 100MB/s consistently, so even these velociraptors wont break sata-1's specs - SATA-II only really has other features going for it at the moment, not speed.

whoops i put gbps
lolol...

 

[Mussels]

whoops i put gbps
lolol...

some of the marketing crap call it 3Gb/s for sata II. Its because the signal runs at that speed, but only 300MB/s of it is actually there/usable for data transfer (some of it is used for other things)

 

[Drac]

finally, since the first day i was asking myself, why the fuck isnt there a WD raptor with sata2?
but SSD are better

 

[mab1376]

i cant wait to pick one up, little out of my price range atm.

ill wait till its about $200 or so.

 

[happita]

Oh cool, $1/gig. No thanks, I'll stick with some 500s in raid for about 25c/gig.

 

[Mussels]

I think the majority are waiting for 32-64GB OS drives, and 256GB general purpose drives (games etc)

Dont exactly need these for media, so a 256GB for OS and games + a few 750GB's for storage should go nicely.