Raptor over 36GB?

[cmdrdredd]

Is WD planning to make the Raptor in a bigger version? I wouldn't buy anything under 60GB now and I'd have to buy 2 Raptores and run RAID to get what I was looking for. I know Seagate makes a 120GB SATA, but it's alot slower.

 

[Schadenfroh]

you have to keep it small to run it at such a high speed. why not keep all the games/programs on the raptors then have a slow 120 gig pata drive to store documents, mp3s, and your digital photo archive

 

[cmdrdredd]

well, there are 15K RPM SCSI drives at 73GB and 10K drives at 146GB

 

[thorin]

I haven't seen anything firm but I WOULD NOT be surprised to see 72GB Raptors (or equiv.) this fall.

Your best bet is to get a Raptor to use as a system/boot drive and a 1200JB or 2000JB as your everyday storage drive.

Thorin

 

[cmdrdredd]

well, what I have now is a 40GB IBM 60GXP a 60GB 120GXP and a WD 200SE

I'm in no need for better/bigger storage, but if in the future I wanted to move to SATA I'd like to get a 60GB drive to avoid having to clean install and allow windows to backup and restore to the new drive being the same size.

 

[thorin]

Use Ghost it can backup and restore between drives/partitions of different size.

Thorin