Anyone know if anything better than Raptors are coming out soon? Thanks all! Sorry if I didnt specify, but I was talking about performace, not storage amount.
Any new HD technology coming out within the next 2 months?
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well nf4 is going to have 3gb sata and atleast a few drives for it should be out by the end of the year
The only really improvements in HD technology are 100GB platters, native SATA interface, and NCQ on supported chipsets. Won't be seeing much else until SATA300 comes available.
Thats something I'm interested to know to, I wonder if WD might be working on a 3rd generation raptor or something, as I'll be building an all new rig soon and getting an Nforce 4, and was going to get a 74GB raptor, but I dunno if I should hold off.
Where did you get this from?
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You could always go SCSI and 15krpm. Raptors turned out to be pretty competitive in transfer rates, but their seek times still stuck versus the high end drives due to their low rpm.
i'd expect wd to release a raptor with basically the same stats as the same ones, but with native sata II and 16 mb cache and nqc, just because it has been a while since the current ones were out and the other manufacturers are coming out with these options for more mainstream drives. haven't seen any news of this though
If ur looking for performance then get 2 Raptor SATA 1000rpm drives and run them in RAID Stripe mode. You'll get dual bandwidth speeds with low access and read times. If ur using it for games then don't install the OS on the same partition as them. Use another hard drive to hold the OS and the 2 raptors for the games as the constant file swapping of the os will fragment the drive. This should be ample for anything u want to run these days, and won't be 2 expensive either....
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What if you load the OS strickly on your RAM, then can you install it on the same drive? I figure the best I can afford for a HD is $150, so I figured I'd get a 74GB Raptor.
2nd gen SATA aka SATA300 is due out soon. SAS (serial attached scsi) is due out sorta, but not for a while
The Maxtor Atlas 15K II has just hit the streets. Even without seeing benchmarks, I still think it is pretty safe to say, it will be the fastest drive around for sometime, with competition from Fujitsu if they ever get around to releasing their new 15k drive. Not exactly in your $150 budget though. There will not be anything performance standard setting released in that price range anytime soon.
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I want a Seagate with 16mb of cache but 400GB is more than I want in a single drive. The most I want in a single drive right now is 250GB... I rather run 2x250 than have a single 400. I'm sure that a single 400GB drive will cost more than 2x250 also, so it makes more sense to just get the two drives.
The Seagate 2x133 is planned and I plan on getting a couple with 16MB cache, although they will prolly be hard to justify over the common 100GB platter / 8MB cache models which are so darn cheap even now ($50 for 160GB, etc.).
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