VelociRaptor available for order now

[modoheo]

In case you're building a new high-end gaming dream machine and want to spring for the fastest non-SSD HD you can get. It's reportedly twice as fast as the old raptor, and much quieter.

Still not sure it's worth 5X more per gig than a WDAAKS series HD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136260

 

[Roguestar]

It looks almost like you joined to post this, but whatever.

For anyone who absolutely needs a small performance improvement in something that may not even be a bottleneck for them, at very high cost I guess it's a good choice...

 

[Soundmanred]

And it's spelled "VelociRaptor".

 

[modoheo]

Fixed. Thanks for the link.

Posted this here since so many folks post their new builds in this forum without checking out the other sections. Feel free to move it.

 

[Old Hippie]

Mine should be coming tomorrow. :thumbsup:

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
For anyone who absolutely needs a small performance improvement in something that may not even be a bottleneck for them, at very high cost I guess it's a good choice...

It is a nice drive. But I would save $200 and buy a WD 640GB, partition off the first 200-250GB for my OS.
The benchmarks for the 640 are ran using the whole drive. A smaller partition on the outer edge would make the drive standup even stronger against the newest in the Raptor family.