10000 rpm v. 7200 rpm question
- Thread starter Karaim
- Start date
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
The 10k one is faster. Hard drives aren't using the full potential of SATA 1.5 yet.
You won't see the full 3.0 on the sata bus as a rule since sata drives still tend to be limited by the ATA100 standard. The bus itself is faster obviously then ide while the drives still see the physical limitations.
The Raptors see the faster rpm and are often preferred by gamers for trying to see the added edge there. The drawback is the largest model is about 150gb if you find you need drive space on the primary drive. 10,000rpm still beats 7,200 however.
The Raptors see the faster rpm and are often preferred by gamers for trying to see the added edge there. The drawback is the largest model is about 150gb if you find you need drive space on the primary drive. 10,000rpm still beats 7,200 however.
The Raptors started off being small drives with the 36gb, 74gb, and 150gb sizes while others at 7,200rpm see 1TB with some external drives as large as 2TB at this time! But don't expect to be seeing drives with 15,000rpm since a new type of drive would be needed. For the time being however the Raptors are the fast ones.
That will be perfect.
Timo
New Member
What would you say if I knew a 10K RPM 300GB drive? Because I know one...
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459
There, another WD super-product ^^
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3303
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2288835,00.asp
Last edited:
Evidently that's a totally new series like the GP 1TB models seen last fall. At present none of those are in stock at newegg as seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2010150014+50001306+1035507821&name=10000+RPM
You will also note the VelociRaptor not Raptor name used for the new line. TigerDirect only sees one 74gb Raptor model at http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2368632&CatId=139
No availablilty quite yet after looking at several retail outlets as well as online vendors. Sorry it's not out yet.
Heh. . They're on B/O from ASI, and the price...!!!
But.. I just stained myself. I'm buying one.. just cuz.What do you expect? The Green Power 1TB models were first seen for over $300- at the end of 2007. Those are down about $130 at the present time. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151
One dollar per Gigabyte... A bit too much for my likings, normally that would be like 35 cents... You could get a triple raid0 and still be faster for the same money with a whooooooooooooooole lot more space(disk-space that is; not case-space ^^ )
Overall that drive will simply destroy a RAID0 in everything.. Speed, reliability, MTBF.. RAID0 is a total joke.
Timo
New Member
One dollar per Gigabyte... A bit too much for my likings, normally that would be like 35 cents... You could get a triple raid0 and still be faster for the same money with a whooooooooooooooole lot more space
Once the prices come down even further like seeing a pair of 500gb models for $104.99 each when bought now seen for $89.99 you can't go wrong if you need the drive space to start with. Take a look in a retail chain like CompUSA and compare their outrageous prices to those seen at a vendor like newegg if you will want a large drive.
Gee? since the board here has 6 sata ports I could for for a second sata optical drive to replace the ide cd writer and go for four 1TB GP models and have all the space I would ever need right there. Let's see the next version of Windows both 32 and 64bit editions along with XP and Vista now on plus about 20-30 Linux distros and possibly Mac thrown in. hhhmm.
