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Is Western Digital coming out with a new version of their Raptor HDD anytime soon?

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I know people have been speculating but I haven't seen any concrete evidence pointing to a product release anytime in the near distant future. I guess right now there is very little competition in the 10k SATA market therefore WD has very little reason to update their product. Am I correct?
 
I havent heard anything about one, but hopefully someone has. that'd be nice if they came out with a 148GB one with sata2 support and 16mb cache.
 
Originally posted by: Mik3y
I havent heard anything about one, but hopefully someone has. that'd be nice if they came out with a 148GB one with sata2 support and 16mb cache.
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:thumbsup:

Too bad it would cost $400 though 🙁
 
At lest this drive will minimize the chances of data loss by offering single HDD solution than the Raid 0 array.
 
Even if they do come out with one, I don't think it will be that benificial. My 2 raptors in raid-0 only got me 45 seconds faster encoding a DVD to DivX than my single 160gb WD Sata II 8mb cache hard drive. They are faster yes, but not by much.
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Even if they do come out with one, I don't think it will be that benificial. My 2 raptors in raid-0 only got me 45 seconds faster encoding a DVD to DivX than my single 160gb WD Sata II 8mb cache hard drive. They are faster yes, but not by much.
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Yeah the Raptor technology is a bit old to compete in the Bandwidth department. The aerial density is mainly to blame.
The newest drives I heard even have a slightly higher advantage than Raptor

But it is still shining at latency intensive tasks such as random file access and file server.

HOWEVER a new doubled aerial density Raptor would mean doubling bandwidth AND performance, which is a thing to look forward to.
 
Regular SATA drives have already almost caught up.

Unless WD found out how to make them cheaper, I think less and less people are gonna buy them
 
What would be sweet is a 15krpm Raptor that beats many/most 15krpm SCSI drives...then you'd have a fair boost over current SATA alternatives
 
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