there is a 7.200rpm speedier than Wd800jb??

It'd be interesting to see if you could actually pick between
two otherwise identical systems in a proper double blind
trial with the raptor as the OS drive. I doubt it myself.

I can feel it with SCSI.

In a double-blind test?


I could if I had too. Although it really depends. If you give me
some crappy older 7200rpm 40MB/s SCSI drive probably not. If I'm
comparing even an IBM 180 with a 10 or 15k Cheetah I could.

Eric

"Eric Witte" wrote in message om...
Better access time and faster. Doesn't the 120GB drive only have 40GB
platters anyway? That is not going to make up for a whole lot. The
only drives I see getting close are the 200-250GB drives coming out.
Still slightly slower with higher access time. The raptor makes a
great OS drive. Lots of tiny files that depend more on access time
than raw speed. Compare the boot times with the raptor with the newer
drives even. I've seen people do a complete boot in about 12 seconds
with that drive. IMO it just feels faster as well.

It'd be interesting to see if you could actually pick between
two otherwise identical systems in a proper double blind
trial with the raptor as the OS drive. I doubt it myself.

I can feel it with SCSI.

I'd want to prove that with a proper double blind trial.

Its very easy to convince yourself that you can feel it when
you cant in fact pick the system in a proper double blind trial.

And judging by the benchmark results seen with the Raptor,
I'd bet you couldnt actually pick it with a double blind trial.

It'd be interesting to see if you could actually pick between
two otherwise identical systems in a proper double blind
trial with the raptor as the OS drive. I doubt it myself.

I can feel it with SCSI.

I'd want to prove that with a proper double blind trial.

Its very easy to convince yourself that you can feel it when
you cant in fact pick the system in a proper double blind trial.

And judging by the benchmark results seen with the Raptor,
I'd bet you couldnt actually pick it with a double blind trial.

I was actually including the raptor as a *modified* scsi drive. I
probably would have trouble telling.

Eric

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"Bob Knowlden" wrote in message ...
If you believe

http://www.storagereview.com

the larger drives in the series are faster than the 80 GB version, which
must mean that the larger drives have higher-density platters.

Or in other words, the 80GB drive is not from the same series as the bigger
drives. Some of them are though.

How i can identify the series??it's not enough the jb after the number
that indicate the capacity? (like 800jb..or 120jb..)

Apparently not.

The german magazine c't has two results for the WD800BB,
16 months apart:
c't 15/2001 WD800BB-00BSA0 33MB/s max.
c't 23/2002 WD800BB-00CAA0 46MB/s max.

Apparently the first 800BB was the biggest (or in tho upper end) of it's series,
200, 300 400, 600 and 800?
the second is the smallest (or in the lower end) of it's series,
800, 1000, 1200, 1600, 2000 ?

The same may happen again with some of the drives now that again bigger platters
are used with the bigger drives.


explain me pls

If you can use a serial ATA drive, you could consider the Western Digital
Raptor drive - it's the first 10,000 RPM ATA drive - but it is only 36 GB in
size. You can buy a 120 GB parallel AT drive with an 8 MB cache for less
money, and (due to the higher platter density) it won't be that much slower
at 7200 RPM.

Depends what type of use you have for them.
Better access time can make-up for sustained transfer rate and vice versa.

This i need for install the os...and after the same thing (that haven't
particular needed of hd) i will do ripping dvd, and audio recording
and some of graphic (but not so heavy)works For this i think that for
the moment i don't need the raptor..i will evaluate this hd when have a
bit more of capacity (for video and audio it's not enough....36gb it's
just for the os and the heavier sw)

Thanks much!
Best Greetings!


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