--Anyone know when Sata II raptors are coming out?--

[Battlewaffle]

I'm waiting for the Sata II raptors before upgrading my HD. I haven't heard anything about them yet however.


Also, does anyone know if harddrive performance affects your 3dmark05 score? Or is that all about cpu, memory, fsb/htt, and vid card?

 

[anarchyreigns]

Don't know about the Raptors, however, WD just came out today with their new SATA II SE16 drives with a 16mb cache...so it might not be long now before they udate the Raptors.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=133

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: anarchyreigns
Don't know about the Raptors, however, WD just came out today with their new SATA II SE16 drives with a 16mb cache...so it might not be long now before they udate the Raptors.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=133

That's awesome. I was wondering when WD was gonna release a 16MB cache drive.

 

[w00t]

raptor is sata 2 .... ATA-150
raptors are a waste dont get one.

 

[anarchyreigns]

Originally posted by: w00t
raptor is sata 2 ....

No it isn't...it is SATA.

 

[Penth]

Originally posted by: w00t
raptor is sata 2 .... ATA-150
raptors are a waste dont get one.

How does someone with almost 1500 posts spout off that ATA-150 is SATA 2? Raptors have their uses, and I doubt you will find many owners who feel that it is a waste.

 

[The Green Bean]

so will a SATA 2 aptor be any faster than a regular raptor? I was looking for one myself.

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: w00t
raptor is sata 2 .... ATA-150
raptors are a waste dont get one.

Sigh,

The ones that dont have them are the ones that hate them...

Same story.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: hatim
so will a SATA 2 aptor be any faster than a regular raptor? I was looking for one myself.

They won't transfer data any faster, because from what I can tell, the Raptor isn't bottlenecked by the SATA 1 interface right now. However, changes in the hardware and/or firmware of the drive might result in other performance improvements not related to the move to SATA 2.

 

[RussianSensation]

What raptor needs is a 149 gig size they promised 2 years ago. 2 platter (74 gig each) raptor would scream.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

SATA II 300mb is the new interface standard that will become benificial in the future, but none of the current drives come close to saturating the current 150mb SATA buss. I have two 74gb raptors in a RAID0 array (fastest access you can get currently) and my peak throughput is around 125mb. The current SATAII drives are a marketing joke, because they don't run any faster than regular SATA drives. The first drives to truly benifit from SATAII will likely be 15-20k rpm enterprize class drives (RaptorII ?)

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: w00t
raptor is sata 2 .... ATA-150
raptors are a waste dont get one.

Fool.

For those like myself who already have spent a couple thousand in my system, decreasing the biggest bottleneck (the hard drive) only makes sense.

For those on a budjet, a Raptor doesn't make sense.

But they have their place.