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Western Digital ready to ship 250GB Serial-ATA Caviar drives!! :-)

The Western Digital SecureConnect looks pretty interesting. Is there actually a problem with the SATA cable coming loose on the drives? I can't really tell if there is a little latch or anything to protect it from coming out.
 
Originally posted by: randumb
To me, it seems sort of pointless. The drives can't use the extra bandwidth right now anyways.
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But the reduction in cable mass does wonders for case clutter and airflow. Also, I'm running my two SATA Barracuda V hard drive off the ICH5-R southbridge on my IC7. Don't have to worry about running over the PCI bus like every other RAID controller out there.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: randumb
To me, it seems sort of pointless. The drives can't use the extra bandwidth right now anyways.
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But the reduction in cable mass does wonders for case clutter and airflow. Also, I'm running my two SATA Barracuda V hard drive off the ICH5-R southbridge on my IC7. Don't have to worry about running over the PCI bus like every other RAID controller out there.
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how much does a setup like that cost?
 
Originally posted by: zCypher
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: randumb
To me, it seems sort of pointless. The drives can't use the extra bandwidth right now anyways.
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But the reduction in cable mass does wonders for case clutter and airflow. Also, I'm running my two SATA Barracuda V hard drive off the ICH5-R southbridge on my IC7. Don't have to worry about running over the PCI bus like every other RAID controller out there.
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how much does a setup like that cost?
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IC7, ~$150
80GB SATA Barracuda V's, $124 each
 
especially nice if you get the retil kit 80gb sata barracuda Vs, comes with cable and power adapter and a BOX heheh, and it costs pretty much the same, maybe a little more than oem at most places. I was going to get a couple of these but decided to get a couple raptors instead.
 
Very nice, gah I remember when 500 MB was big, and I'm sure people on this board remember when 5 MB was huge.

250 GB at 7200 RPM w/ SATA blows me away. This is .25 TB! At this rate we'll have 1 TB in about 3 years.


 
The connectors used with Serial ATA are pretty bad. They snap very easily and there isn't really much to hold them into place, lots of people have been having problems with them. The actual cables are nice, so thin compared to IDE. Once you get things setup its fine, but bending them around and getting them in place is a bit touchy, some people have snapped them (I had no trouble, was very careful).
 
Originally posted by: astroview
Very nice, gah I remember when 500 MB was big, and I'm sure people on this board remember when 5 MB was huge.

250 GB at 7200 RPM w/ SATA blows me away. This is .25 TB! At this rate we'll have 1 TB in about 3 years.
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Bah, I fondly remember blowing my load over my new 1mb floppy drive for the C64. My BBS kicked ass with that thing.
 
NSF4, how far can the IC7 undervolt, and is Abit shipping the latest batches of boards with the quiet northbridge fan? I read on here that the first batches have a loud northbridge fan.
 
Very nice, gah I remember when 500 MB was big, and I'm sure people on this board remember when 5 MB was huge.
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I remember that 40MB HDD I had in my Mac SE30. Boy, That was a monster then.😉
 
Originally posted by: Utterman
The Western Digital SecureConnect looks pretty interesting. Is there actually a problem with the SATA cable coming loose on the drives? I can't really tell if there is a little latch or anything to protect it from coming out.
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Yes, yes and yes... they really are horrible. Current SATA cables are absolutely terrible, the connectors tend to snap off and break easily if your not very careful, even so if you plan on connecting/disconnecting your drives with any frequency you can expect it to break rather fast.
When they are connected it's not terribly unusual for them to slip out as the connection isnt at all very secure, and pressure at all and they'll quickly slip.

As bad as the cables themselves are it's even worse that the connectors on the HDD's themselves arent much better-frail plastic things that can easily snap off altogether if your not careful.

Personally I can't understand how they managed to ratify the Serial ATA spec with the connectors as poor as they are right now.
 
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