Next Generation WD Raptors?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I want to get raptors, but I'm too poor. I can only afford the 36 GB ones, and plus those are the ones Fry's puts out for sale once in a while. Anyways, I know the 74s are way faster, but even the Maxtor Diamondmax 10 beats it in many real world benches. Now the 7200.8 is beating the Raptor as well?

Raptors are pretty old though, and I would think they would make new ones. Especially with 16 MB cache the new feature, I hope they are gonna make new generation Raptors to compete.

Anyone know anything about the next generation Raptors (if there will be any?)

 

[JoLim24601]

the 7200.8 and diamondmax 10 is not really in league with the raptor.. its still way ahead

 

[Makaveli]

I've been reading most of the reviews on the newer 7200 Rpm drives. Overall the 74GB raptor is still the fastest HD. Some Applications the newer 7200Rpm drives have been make up ground due to the 16mb cache models, and much bigger platter sizes. Access times,seek times, STR is still much faster on the raptor! As For NCQ vs TCQ haven't seen a difference in speed.

 

[Penth]

Wow, I'm glad I browsed the forums before posting this question as it fits very well here. Has anyone ready any news of a next-generation Raptor coming out? Even if it's the same size if it is 16mb of cache. 16MB plus 144GB at $180 would be pretty sweet. I'm going to be buying one in the near future and don't want to have it arrive just as WD announced their newer. I don't have a desperate need for one, so waiting a while is fine if anything is on the horizon.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Haven't heard of anything, but I wouldn't mind a 16MB cache Raptor.

 

[wfn]

some interesting information here.. unfortunately no eta still

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: wfn
some interesting information here.. unfortunately no eta still

that thread is from last year

 

[wfn]

and? did you read what SG said in it?

 

[Pariah]

Yes, he said it was the same as the 74GB model with more platters and no speed improvements and that it should have already been available by now. Except that the product hasn't even been announced yet, which in the hard drive industry means if it is going to be released it is many months off from being available.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

In synthetic tests, the Raptor has the lead. 4.5ms access time, 10k rpm etc. I'm sure it can win in many of thoses tests. But look at the tranfer tests (start/end). 7200.8 has like 70mb start/finish which owns the Raptor anyday. Furthermore, I saw at other sites before including Anandtech where the Raptor loses in Doom 3 loading tests. The review yesterday already shows the Raptor being slightly slower. These are the real world tests that count. We don't care if the Raptor has awesome #s on paper and owns all synthetic tests. If in real world tests the gap is closed and in some cases the Raptor loses, then I'm quite concerned. I would hope they release a new one and I would surely buy it =)

 

[MobiusPizza]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
In synthetic tests, the Raptor has the lead. 4.5ms access time, 10k rpm etc. I'm sure it can win in many of thoses tests. But look at the tranfer tests (start/end). 7200.8 has like 70mb start/finish which owns the Raptor anyday. Furthermore, I saw at other sites before including Anandtech where the Raptor loses in Doom 3 loading tests. The review yesterday already shows the Raptor being slightly slower. These are the real world tests that count. We don't care if the Raptor has awesome #s on paper and owns all synthetic tests. If in real world tests the gap is closed and in some cases the Raptor loses, then I'm quite concerned. I would hope they release a new one and I would surely buy it =)

I wouldn't call it a lose. Heck the time difference was only several mini-seconds you won't notice anyway. Plus the fact the times are hand-timed. There would be human errors.

Raptor is noticebly faster when loading applications which are multi-part in nature, such as many modules and dynamic link libraries; thanks to its access time.

It loses over game loading because usually game have large texture files, maps packed. The low disc density of the Raptor is the main problem.

Although it might losses few mini seconds on loading games, it would improve your windows start up times, application loading times, overall system performance (swap files access). I am sure windows starts up at least 25% faster with raptors. That makes up for the loading time in games.