Comments on: Western Digital intros superfast 2.5″ drive

By: servo

servo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:53:20 +0000

promises all we get are promises

By: A.Bundy

A.Bundy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00:15 +0000

#5 said: “#2 Slow?. 3GB/s?.
The most I can get from a Raptor drive is 60MB/s!”

Where do get 3Gigabytes per second? The highest SATA II specs go is 300 Megabytes per second or 3 Gigabits per second.

By: SR

SR — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:41:35 +0000

OH YEA!

Well modded 4 64 gig SDD as the cache for each of my 4 velociraptor’s and added dual 80 core intel research models with optic transfers!

My graphics cards are 4 Nvidia 10000 X2 models.

By: Rls_Log_King

Rls_Log_King — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:03:19 +0000

I overclocked my HD to 50,000rpm and i added an additional quad core to make a duo-quad core. Basically it means i have the best PC around

By: Roflcer of the Lawl

Roflcer of the Lawl — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:58:43 +0000

Me like me buy

By: Buster

Buster — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:54:02 +0000

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html

By: me

me — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:36:40 +0000

wanna see some real life tests on these things in a raid setup. a pair of raptors pwn, wanna see if its worth the upgrade

By: Drksoul

Drksoul — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:39:47 +0000

@6 “Okay.. Will be a major heat issue with this one. My WD 5,400 RPM is still fast enough for me, no problems in Assassin’s Creed or CoD4 so far.”

Did you actually read the article?

“The drive is enclosed in WDC’s IcePack. IcePack is a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink which the Lake Forest, Calif.-based storage vendor said fits in a standard 3.5-inch system bay and provides extra cooling for high-performance desktop PC and workstation applications.”

So you actually will need a 3.5 inch bay, and not 2.5
since the whole size with the icepack actually is 3.5 inches..
Somehat misleading really

By: Xerox©

Xerox© — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:18:31 +0000

Only SSD

By: Spoonstar

Spoonstar — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:24:19 +0000

@Keito:

That wouldn’t serve much use; the majority of PS3 games are still stored on the Blu Ray disc so you’re not going to see a massive improvement even if placing this in the PS3 would work. (WD already stated this isn’t going to work in laptops, for example)

By: pAbLoEsCo

pAbLoEsCo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:43:30 +0000

tHx 4 da link pKt……..prec pAbLo

By: Keito

Keito — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:52:25 +0000

Might consider putting this in my PS3

By: pkt

pkt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:08:05 +0000

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459

Transfer rate: 120 MB/s

Ok, now that’s more credible

By: M

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:00:17 +0000

Okay.. Will be a major heat issue with this one. My WD 5,400 RPM is still fast enough for me, no problems in Assassin’s Creed or CoD4 so far.

By: Flick

Flick — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:59:17 +0000

@3 “smaller and smaller” ???

2.5 has been the standard size for L/tops for yonks … the only thing that may be of use is hopefully better? access times from the faster spin speed (in theory) and a better transfer rate would help …

@2 doesn’t seem impressed by the specs, any one got a link?