20k raptor any 1?

[marsey99]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06/06/western-digital-working-on-20-000-rpm-raptor/1

still early but i guess they have do to somthing if they dont want solidstate drives to take over.

too late imo tho as its bound to happen.

[mac124]

will probably sound like a jet taking off on startup, the 10k ones were noisey as hell, apparently.

[monkey56657]

I want to get a 10k one but so damn expensive :|

[nft99]

had a 36gb raptor and it was noisy ! suspect these will be even worse :(

[SirBaron]

Man I don't want to imagine the noise, I think my 7200RPM drives are bad enough. :S

Hence why I shall be popping over to Aria later today to purchase me 2x32GB OCZ Core SDD's! :mrgreen:

2 of them in Raid0, and my 500GB for the **** not worthy to be on the SDD's and my PC will fly.

I'd get the 128GB ones, but there are rumors of 256GB SDD's coming at the end of the year, so I'm gunna spend little on the two smaller ones, till even larger versions arive.

[wonderlust]

err today's sunday... :D

[SirBaron]

They have been open every other Sunday when I went...:S

[wonderlust]

ah ok

[SirBaron]

Out of stock, the website said they had stock in and online ¬¬.

[chatters]

Out of stock, the website said they had stock in and online ¬¬.

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Solid+State/OCZ+32GB+Core+Series+Solid+State+Disk+?productId=3 2417

They have to be ordered online or through telesales, they have a lead time of 5 days if you look on the actual page

[Monkey]

Nice and cheap... ill take two of these then
Mtron Pro 7000 64Gb Solid State SATA (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Solid+State/Mtron+Pro+7000+64Gb+Solid+State+SATA?productId=310 91)
:|

900 QUID FOR 64GIG!!! I just paid 80 odd quid for 1024GIG!!!

[alexnifty]

Some people have more money than sense. SSD's aren't that great for desktop computing.

[Monkey]

What are they great for? Mow much faster are they?

[alexnifty]

They have really low power needs compared to regular HD's so they go nicely in laptops. No moving parts means they are harder to damage, and theoretically live longer.

The have slightly faster read times but are usually slower when writing data. They are also prohibitively expensive.

[coiler]

my 10k 150gb raptor is quiet as a sealed jamjar

[Audigex]

That might just be one of the best metaphors for a hard drive ever...

If it's truly silent (or at least as quiet as my fans) I might be tempted. SSDs are too expensive to matter right now. They'll be worth it once 64gig's come into common price range, the read speed for OS and games will be great - but for now they just don't give punch for pound,

[coiler]

seriously i can hear my silent eagles over it (and thats saying something they are QUIET)

The only time its noticable is when I defrag it and even then its a pleasant dull click

[alexnifty]

seriously i can hear my silent eagles over it (and thats saying something they are QUIET)

The only time its noticable is when I defrag it and even then its a pleasant dull click

That'll be the ninja inside snapping the necks of fragmented files ¬_¬

[marsey99]

i replied to this thread yesterday and its gone?


if i could afford ssd i would have a couple striped. yea they only read faster but when the slowest thing in your pc is your harddrive and you waiting for it to read you will notice the speed of these. even 2 7k drives striped is noticabley faster than a single drive setup so i cant wait to see how fast sdd are.

[alexnifty]

SSD's are slower for some things than normal HD's. I think (not checked) that they are slower when writing small amounts of data.

The reason I read for this is that to write data to the drive you have to delete entire blocks of data and then rewrite into them.

So in fact by striping you will make this problem worse by creating even smaller amounts of data to write to the individual drives.

[PeterStoba]

I know someone with 4 64GBs in RAID 0