UPDATE: Storagereview has the new numbers for the drive in the database...a formal review will be up in a few days. Man alive, this thing looks fast, conistently ranking up there in between SCSI drives....looks like a winner for the non-server market.
W00t, I cannot wait for these drives....the review seems to be slashdotted though
Watch out SCSI
UPDATE:
This is a paragraph taken from the review acc. to a guy over at /. :
"When Western Digital raised the bar nearly 1.5 years ago, we repeatedly pointed out that the Special Edition (JB series) Caviar was what readers really wanted when they speculated over 10,000 RPM ATA drives.
Equipped with an 8-megabyte buffer and accompanying firmware aggressively tuned for single-user scenarios, the WD1000JB easily matched and even exceeded the performance that the best 10k RPM SCSI drives of the era delivered when it came to desktop performance.
While SCSI drives feature superior mechanics, their server orientation forces them to trade away firmware optimized for highly-localized patterns in favor of strategies that maximize returns in random access scenarios. In the Raptor, WD faces much of the same quandary. "
W00t, I cannot wait for these drives....the review seems to be slashdotted though
Watch out SCSI
UPDATE:
This is a paragraph taken from the review acc. to a guy over at /. :
"When Western Digital raised the bar nearly 1.5 years ago, we repeatedly pointed out that the Special Edition (JB series) Caviar was what readers really wanted when they speculated over 10,000 RPM ATA drives.
Equipped with an 8-megabyte buffer and accompanying firmware aggressively tuned for single-user scenarios, the WD1000JB easily matched and even exceeded the performance that the best 10k RPM SCSI drives of the era delivered when it came to desktop performance.
While SCSI drives feature superior mechanics, their server orientation forces them to trade away firmware optimized for highly-localized patterns in favor of strategies that maximize returns in random access scenarios. In the Raptor, WD faces much of the same quandary. "
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