Western Digital Raptor 36GB Serial ATA 10K

[DevilsPGD]

I'm building myself a new system... I've been out of the hardware
"world" for a little while (working in software now), so I'm a bit out
of date about what all is out there, and/or brands to avoid.

Just curious, has anyone tried a Western Digital Raptor 36GB Serial ATA
10K / 8MB / 5.2ms / S-ATA-150 Hard Drive?

I'm not a big fan of WD drives in general, but I don't see much else in
the S-ATA world that is at 10K or has the 5.2ms seek time these babies
are advertising, and in what I do drive speed is extremely important to
me (mostly seek and burst rates, rarely sustained operation)

I'm planning to put two of them in a RAID-1 (mirror) configuration and
use this machine as my primary desktop.

Thoughts?

 

[Jan Alter]

Hi,

Hundreds of folks have tried them and obviously love them. Go to
Newegg.com. Look up the hard drives they sell and you should easily find
this drive; then read the customer reviews of them.
From my own perspective, without having tried one, I think one has to be
prone to speed demon activity to spend the extra money for smallish drive
space. I'm just a moderate at heart.

--
Jan Alter
(e-mail address removed)
or
(e-mail address removed)12.pa.us

I'm building myself a new system... I've been out of the hardware
"world" for a little while (working in software now), so I'm a bit out
of date about what all is out there, and/or brands to avoid.

Just curious, has anyone tried a Western Digital Raptor 36GB Serial ATA
10K / 8MB / 5.2ms / S-ATA-150 Hard Drive?

I'm not a big fan of WD drives in general, but I don't see much else in
the S-ATA world that is at 10K or has the 5.2ms seek time these babies
are advertising, and in what I do drive speed is extremely important to
me (mostly seek and burst rates, rarely sustained operation)

I'm planning to put two of them in a RAID-1 (mirror) configuration and
use this machine as my primary desktop.

Thoughts?

guns are great then we'll argue some more.

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <<[email protected]>> "Jan Alter"

From my own perspective, without having tried one, I think one has to be
prone to speed demon activity to spend the extra money for smallish drive
space. I'm just a moderate at heart.

I don't much care about space, my laptop (current primary machine) has
40gig, I'm barely using 8gig. The one thing I miss about having a
desktop is the pure read/write speed of the drives -- When I open up a
large database, I feel it.

Of course, I have a few servers with 800ish gig of drive space only a
100Mb network away, so that tends to reduce the need for local drive
space.

 

[DaveW]

They are Great, and they come with a 5 Year Warranty. Try finding another
harddrive for the price and performance with that kind of corporate backing.

--
DaveW

I'm building myself a new system... I've been out of the hardware
"world" for a little while (working in software now), so I'm a bit out
of date about what all is out there, and/or brands to avoid.

Just curious, has anyone tried a Western Digital Raptor 36GB Serial ATA
10K / 8MB / 5.2ms / S-ATA-150 Hard Drive?

I'm not a big fan of WD drives in general, but I don't see much else in
the S-ATA world that is at 10K or has the 5.2ms seek time these babies
are advertising, and in what I do drive speed is extremely important to
me (mostly seek and burst rates, rarely sustained operation)

I'm planning to put two of them in a RAID-1 (mirror) configuration and
use this machine as my primary desktop.

Thoughts?

guns are great then we'll argue some more.

 

[Noozer]

Hi,

Hundreds of folks have tried them and obviously love them. Go to
Newegg.com. Look up the hard drives they sell and you should easily find
this drive; then read the customer reviews of them.
From my own perspective, without having tried one, I think one has to be
prone to speed demon activity to spend the extra money for smallish drive
space. I'm just a moderate at heart.

With the speed of CPU's and memory these days, a hard drive (no matter how
speedy) is going to lag the computer many times.

I *almost* bought a pair to Raid0 in my new PC, but my shopping list was
already pricey with replacing my main PC as well as the wifes. Unfortunately
at double the price and half the storage of a normal SATA drive I just
couldn't justify it enough.

: (

 

[DevilsPGD]

They are Great, and they come with a 5 Year Warranty. Try finding another
harddrive for the price and performance with that kind of corporate backing.

Yeah, the warranty sold me, I just ordered two of them... I'll pick 'em
up tomorrow.

Unfortunately my system doesn't have SATA. Alas, I'll have to buy a new
system

 

[S.Heenan]

In message <<Z7_Pb.101089$Rc4.647629@attbi_s54>> "DaveW"


Yeah, the warranty sold me, I just ordered two of them... I'll pick
'em up tomorrow.

Unfortunately my system doesn't have SATA. Alas, I'll have to buy a
new system

Buy a SATA controller card, like a HighPoint or Promise. If you feel the
need for speed, go with RAID0 and make frequent backups.

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <<syyQb.248268$JQ1.28351@pd7tw1no>> "S.Heenan"

Buy a SATA controller card, like a HighPoint or Promise. If you feel the
need for speed, go with RAID0 and make frequent backups.

My previous system was a laptop, so adding an SATA card wasn't
especially practical, if possible at all.

Bought a new desktop, onboard SATA RAID-0, 2x36.7GB WD Raptor 36GB
drives... Yay!

I have to admit, I'm damn impressed.