Thoughts 25 Apr 2008 08:08 am
New Raptor 10k drive due out in mid May
Western Digital has announced the release of a new 300 gig 10k rpm hd they call the VelociRaptor.
The company claims this new drive with it’s 16meg buffer is 35% faster than the old Raptors.
The drive is a 2.5 inch form with an SATA 3g/sec interface and integral heatsink bringing the outter dimensions to a standard 3.5″. —So no you can’t put one in your laptop —Yet.
Alienware is reportedly shipping with the new drives, but to buy just a drive from a retailer you need to wait until mid-May.
Not that that matters. Nobody should buy version 1 of any hardware or software.
I would hold off on this beast for at least a couple of months. By then the supply will have stabilized and any issues will be known.
My current plan is to wait about 6 months or so, then buy 4, put them in a machine running a very fast Intel chip, a pair of fast Nvidia cards, and run the drives in raid 5.
If you’re going to do something that is completely frivolous you might as well take it to the extreme.