WD Raptor Question..

[Stealth1024]

Quick question here.

How do I tell the difference between the old slower 36GB revision of the raptor and newest one (same speed as new 74GB I presume)?

If this is the new one I would be rather happy for that price: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=720951/search=Raptor%20Serial%20ATA-150/ut=811590ee7775c2e0

 

[iclick]

I've been wondering the same thing, and anxiously await info on this.

 

[SocrPlyr]

they are all still the older versions right now...

Josh

 

[Stealth1024]

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr
they are all still the older versions right now... Josh

Thank you for clearing up that misunderstanding.

 

[billyjak]

Yea I just read they're not going to the market until the old stock is depleted.

 

[RussianSensation]

I think the old version is still very fast, its the preproduction preview models that were extremely slow and underperforming. Besides isn't the "old" version still a lot faster than a single 7200 rpm drive?

 

[helpme]

A friend of mine bought a 36GB that died in a month

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: helpme
A friend of mine bought a 36GB that died in a month

It doesn't mean anything, every brand and model has failures within the first month. In fact the failure rate graph for most hardware and consumer electronics has a big spike for the initial month, then it drops down for a long while until rising again.

That's what warranties are for.

But yes it's still annoying when it happens to you

 

[Pariah]

Storage Review's reliability survey has 160 entries for the Raptor, and 74% of the drives in their database are more reliable. The Raptor does appear to be having some reliability issues that go beyond the normal first month problems.