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Next generation Raptor? When?

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Polish3d

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Anyone have any idea? I'm kind of itching to sell these two bad boys and buy a faster 12k 16meg 100+gig HDD
 
I can't wait, but I have no idea when they're coming.

Lets all hope for a drop in price on the 36/74 gen 1 drives.
 
If the new one comes out for 200, I'll be selling mine for 90 a piece or so. 🙂 A good deal... I like my Raptors but I'm itching for something new
 
They won't introduce a 12KRPM drive (4500, 5400, 7200, 10000, and 15000 are the common standards), they'd just go for 15k, but they won't do that either. Western Digital, you notice, has no SCSI market, or experience making SCSI drives. I wonder pray-tell, what happens when 15K SAS drives hit the market that are intelligent to be run as full-duplex SAS or half-duplex SATA. And 16MB cache is really no better than 8MB. unless you are using them in RAID with write caching enabling, which anyone who says anything about RAID better have experienced for themselve (or they should STFU).
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
They won't introduce a 12KRPM drive (4500, 5400, 7200, 10000, and 15000 are the common standards), they'd just go for 15k, but they won't do that either. Western Digital, you notice, has no SCSI market, or experience making SCSI drives. I wonder pray-tell, what happens when 15K SAS drives hit the market that are intelligent to be run as full-duplex SAS or half-duplex SATA. And 16MB cache is really no better than 8MB. unless you are using them in RAID with write caching enabling, which anyone who says anything about RAID better have experienced for themselve (or they should STFU).
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Those with real raid experience run with HBA with intelligent design and lots of error correcting cache ram backed up with wetcaps with lithium-poly cells backing those up. Those 24k SAS pods are due any month now...

Back on Earth, perhaps WDC will have 146GB versions available? More cache? Who knows. One thing you can be sure of: It will cost you more cash! 😛
 
Nothing has been announced, which means no time soon.

SAS drives are not/will not be compatible with SATA controllers.
 
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