Raptor HOT! 150GB WD Raptor at Newegg for $249.99 - $50 MIR = $199.99 shipped / limit 2!

[Karaktu]

Link

Rebate

5-year warranty

Limit 2 drives per household

Good until August 13 (the rebate, that is).

Convenient, no payments or interest for 6 months on purchases of $500 or more with a Newegg Preferred account, so get your $100 in rebates back before paying them off!

 

[MBentz]

Must... resist...

 

[Skiguy411]

Bahhhh. I do not need to upgrade my 36gig raptor....I don't right?

 

[Loop2kil]

bought one locally here at Monarch for $250 a couple of weeks ago and love it....nice deal

 

[LOUISSSSS]

still expensive gb/$ ratio but is VERY FAST in booting windows and Games/Maps as compared to a 7200 8mb

 

[us3rnotfound]

$1/gig and i'll bite

 

[tbogstad]

man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY

 

[us3rnotfound]

wtf, the 2nd reviewer on that link in the Egg has 22 tray icons? :Q i hope he's talking about the quick launch.

 

[savvy]

I am going to buy one in a few days... it's a nice deal.

 

[z0mb13]

do I need a different mobo to use this raptor HD?

my HD is currently SATA

 

[jonspd]

no

 

[Kwint Sommer]

SATA150 will work with a SATA2 motherbaord right?

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
SATA150 will work with a SATA2 motherbaord right?

yes

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY

Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...

 

[Trikat]

Tempting, but I believe I can resist this deal.
No need for a larger Raptor.

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: AStar617

Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY

Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...

Yeah sadly for him RAID doesn't work like that, lol.

Personally I dream of a five disk RAID-5 array build on those 750GB seagate barracudas...3 Terabytes of data and redundancy to boot...and performance that would make your eyeballs bleed (it's second in file transfer rate only to the 150GB raptor...it's actually faster than the 74 and 36 raptors!).

Of course the RAID controller and the PCI bus would really be the limiting factor at that point. Hmm come to think of it...are there any good PCI-E Raid-5 cards? lol

 

[feelingshorter]

Originally posted by: TekDemon

Originally posted by: AStar617

Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY

Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...

Yeah sadly for him RAID doesn't work like that, lol.

Personally I dream of a five disk RAID-5 array build on those 750GB seagate barracudas...3 Terabytes of data and redundancy to boot...and performance that would make your eyeballs bleed (it's second in file transfer rate only to the 150GB raptor...it's actually faster than the 74 and 36 raptors!).

Of course the RAID controller and the PCI bus would really be the limiting factor at that point. Hmm come to think of it...are there any good PCI-E Raid-5 cards? lol

There has been, for a while now, 300 gig hard drives of different brands that can beat a raptor in file transfer (since before the 150 gig raptors existed) but latency matters too. Raptors can be faster at transfering 3 megabyte x 100 files than 1 x 300 megabyte file, which means windows/photoshop/games will still load faster on a raptor than a 7200 rpm drive. Plus, there are new revisions of raptors that are out now that are even faster (74 gigers).

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
$1/gig and i'll bite

It went down to that price with the Dell deal, I got in on it then, why didn't you?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

how much faster will my boot in windows be if i normally take 1 full minute to boot from the time i press the start button till windows is done (with 1x150gb raptor) as compared to 2 of these in raid 0?

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
how much faster will my boot in windows be if i normally take 1 full minute to boot from the time i press the start button till windows is done (with 1x150gb raptor) as compared to 2 of these in raid 0?

no noticeable difference

 

[Devistater]

Newegg is charging almost $6 shipping now, not free.
But its still one of the best deals around if you want a raptor 150gig

 

[tbogstad]

Um your both wrong, you can raid 1 any drive to any drive as long as the mirror drive is as big or bigger, speed of the second drive makes absolutely no difference, i know i have done it.

so yes i would "raid 0+1" 3 drives, 150gb+150gb in raid 0 and that mirrored to single much slower 300gb IDE drive, NF4 motherboard can raid all the ide and sata channels, so it would be easy.

Originally posted by: TekDemon

Originally posted by: AStar617

Originally posted by: tbogstad
man this is so frigging tempting, this was $319.00 with a $100.00 rebate 3 days ago, now it is $20.00 cheaper with the $50.00 rebate.

if i was not so broke i would snatch 2 of these up for raid-0 and use my 300 gig 7200rpm drive for raid-1, to have the best of both worlds. SPEED and REDUNDANCY

Uh, assuming you're talking about mirroring the 10k RPM RAID0 (150gb + 150gb) against the 7200RPM single disk, is that even possible with different platter rotational speeds? I thought RAID1 required the spindles to be synchronized when mirroring...

Yeah sadly for him RAID doesn't work like that, lol.

Personally I dream of a five disk RAID-5 array build on those 750GB seagate barracudas...3 Terabytes of data and redundancy to boot...and performance that would make your eyeballs bleed (it's second in file transfer rate only to the 150GB raptor...it's actually faster than the 74 and 36 raptors!).

Of course the RAID controller and the PCI bus would really be the limiting factor at that point. Hmm come to think of it...are there any good PCI-E Raid-5 cards? lol

 

[tallman45]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
how much faster will my boot in windows be if i normally take 1 full minute to boot from the time i press the start button till windows is done (with 1x150gb raptor) as compared to 2 of these in raid 0?

no noticeable difference

Correct, but if closely measured it is slower with the Raid than the single drive. the reason is that all files must get striped and pass through the Raid controller, That is an extra processing step. Small files such as an OS load do not get split up over the Raid , hence the Raiding of an OS partition creates a minor processing slowdown.

Use Raid 0 for very large files such as RAW photo images and video files

 

[Craig234]

Tempting deal - the thing I'm concerned about are reports it's a louder drive than the WD Caviar or Seagate.

I'm tired of the background noise of the PC and would like to get rid of the noise.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i have one of the raptor 150gb's and a seagate 7200.7, i can't tell which is louder, both are as quiet as can be, seek can be heard only when my music isn't on and theres no other sound in my room.
sound/speed ratio is good