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Western Digital Raptor 36GB Serial ATA 10K
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"world" for a little while (working in software now), so I'm a bit out of date about what all is out there, and/or brands to avoid.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? -- Just sit through this NRA meeting Marge, and if you still don't think guns are great then we'll argue some more. |
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In message "Jan Alter"
did ramble: 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. -- They'll say, 'You can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny.' I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See? Hey, why do you think they call him Porky? -- George Carlin |
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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 "DevilsPGD" wrote in message ... 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 I've been out of the hardware "world" for a little while (working in software now), so I'm a bit out of date about what all is out there, and/or brands to avoid.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? -- Just sit through this NRA meeting Marge, and if you still don't think guns are great then we'll argue some more. |
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In message Z7_Pb.101089$Rc4.647629@attbi_s54 "DaveW"
did ramble: They are Great, and they come with a 5 Year Warranty. Try finding another harddrive for the price and performance with that kind of corporate backing. Yeah, the warranty sold me, I just ordered two of them... I'll pick 'em up tomorrow. Unfortunately my system doesn't have SATA. Alas, I'll have to buy a new system -- They'll say, 'You can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny.' I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See? Hey, why do you think they call him Porky? -- George Carlin |
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DevilsPGD wrote:
In message Z7_Pb.101089$Rc4.647629@attbi_s54 "DaveW" did ramble: 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 Buy a SATA controller card, like a HighPoint or Promise. If you feel the need for speed, go with RAID0 and make frequent backups. |
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In message syyQb.248268$JQ1.28351@pd7tw1no "S.Heenan"
did ramble: 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 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. |
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