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120 GB Raptor in the Future?

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Tommouse

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I've been holding off buying a raptor for a while in hopes that they will eventually come out with a 120 ... Well 111 or so version of the raptor. I assume that they will do 120GB ones next. Any news on that at all. Are they(WD) even thinking about doing this. No time soon I imagine, I'm guessing 2005 or 06???

Any news or info would be great.
 
I don't see it happening for awhile they may add another platter some time in the distant future 74 + 74 or something but I donno
 
108 is most likely (3x36GB platters I'd guess), but it would probably be quite expensive. (Very).
I suppose it depends on how market demand changes, and what other people come up with.
 
I would dare to venture (or at least hope) that the Next Gen Raptors will be in SATA2 flavor and possibly double up on their Platters
 
To Sum up the Next generation SATA 2.0 will:

Capable of up to 300MB/sec (close to Ultra SCSI speed), have better Hot Swapable (OS must Support)
and offer native command queuing.
You might want to read and search via Google about it or wait for other inoput.
 
I am not sure how big the Raptors will get. It seems to me they are designed more for speed than for capacity. Of course, everyone always wants bigger, faster, better, so maybe. Of course no one knows but Western Digital, and I don't see them telling us until they are ready.

Another benefit of SATA II is the number of devices per channel. Currently SATA supports just one device per SATA channel.

\Dan
 
I wonder if a new platter size may roll along pretty soon. ~36GB platters have been around for quite a while now in the SCSI world. It seems like 60GB/platter is the next capacity point for SCSI so maybe there will be a 120GB raptor within a year. (pure speculation)
 
As has been alluded to, Raptors are for performance, not truly mass storage. If WD ever ups the size and/or number of platters, then we'll all be complaining at their $500 price tags. These are *enterprise* drives.

-SUO, hugs his *enterprising* Raptor (snicker)
 
The Raptor is targetted at lowend servers and business users and is intended to compete with SCSI at the lower end. Because of this it comes in the same capacities as SCSI. There will never be a 120GB version because that isn't one of the standard SCSI capacities which are all twice the size of the capacity below it, starting with 18GB today. The next capacity for the Raptor would be 144GB, but I don't see anything that large being released for a while. Some SCSI makers have already announced their next generation, and as expected they roughly double platter capacity over the current generation to 75GB/platter (300GB tops) for 10k and 36GB/platter (147GB tops)for 15k.
 
I don't think anybody would buy a 120 Gig raptor for 400-500 dollars. Not enough for them to make a profit.
 
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