KaollaSu Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 http://www.wdraptorx.com/ Hmm $349.99 to preorder this thing. Maybe if they added spinning blue LEDs to the inside and a couple decals, it would run faster and they could charge $549.99. I would rather not have a clear top if it means a smaller price tag. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Crap on that. Just upgrade to 2X74 raptors and run them in RAID0 for almost the same price tag. $349 for a hard drive! That's just plain insane! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICON57 Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 thats more than $2.00 per mb, overpriced, but sweet looking hd, i knew it would be long before hd manufacturers would produce clear covers. its a nice mod, but i was too chicken to try it on my expensive drives...i was going to try it on an old crappy drive i have. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Have a look at this before you go espousing on RAID0 performance: http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?...ndpost&p=221874 Yeah, the window on the X looks snazzy but it also cuts the MTBF of the drive in half. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Yes, when I run RAID0 I understand that theoretically it cuts my MTBF in half. So let's calculate out exactly when one of my drives might fail. WD has calculated the 74gb Raptor MTBF at 1.2 million hours at 100% duty cycle. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt and claim that their marketing team has gone wacko and the true MTBF of a 74gb Raptor is only 750,000 hours. Since I'm running RAID0 I've reduced my MTBF 50%, that means one of my drives might fail at 375,000 hours. 375,000 hrs / 24 hrs in a day means one of my drives may fail in 15,625 days. Assuming that I run them both at full duty cycle 24/7. I've never kept the same computer for over 365 days, so the 15,625 days becomes a moot point. EDIT: After re-reading your post I think you are saying that the clear window cuts MTBF in half? But the calculations remain the same. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDragon24 Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Not that is really matters for overall performance, but the drives AFAICT are only Sata 1 spec....WTF? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Yes, when I run RAID0 I understand that theoretically it cuts my MTBF in half. So let's calculate out exactly when one of my drives might fail. WD has calculated the 74gb Raptor MTBF at 1.2 million hours at 100% duty cycle. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt and claim that their marketing team has gone wacko and the true MTBF of a 74gb Raptor is only 750,000 hours. Since I'm running RAID0 I've reduced my MTBF 50%, that means one of my drives might fail at 375,000 hours. 375,000 hrs / 24 hrs in a day means one of my drives may fail in 15,625 days. Assuming that I run them both at full duty cycle 24/7. I've never kept the same computer for over 365 days, so the 15,625 days becomes a moot point. EDIT: After re-reading your post I think you are saying that the clear window cuts MTBF in half? But the calculations remain the same. Yes, according to the info from WD, the MTBF for the windowed X model is half that of the 1500ADFD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Easy money opportunity. Slap two sets of 74gb platters together, add the extra read and write heads, put a clear cover on it and sell 'em for $2.33 per gigabyte. Have everyone pre-order and that cuts your up front engineering, design and prodution costs. Pretty savvy actually. Now, to make it clear, I'm not knocking ANYONE that has to have the latest and greatest hardware regardless of cost. Don't we all. I think that's why they call us enthusiasts! I'm guilty like everyone else. My only point is that if I'm spending over $2.00 per gigabyte for a drive setup, I'm running RAID0 no matter what. Is the performance leaps and bounds better than a single drive? Well everyone goes round and round about that and have for years, ever since you could RAID on a desktop. But at the end of the day it's still cool to say that you run a RAID array Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Did you look at the post I linked to? It's pretty clear using real world and synthetic benchmarks that RAID0 makes no sense on a desktop. Why do it if you are actually getting worse performance? There is also a full review at Storage Review showing that the new 150's outperform even the newest 74GB models by a good margin. This shows that they are not just the same drives with 2 platters. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReD.SkY Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 this drive is totally seet looking, i will put it on my list for "things to buy when i win the lottery" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoyoJoe Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Who wants to bend over first? Those prices are rediculous for sata1, All the companies seem to want a piece of the modding pie. putting bling on whatever u sell means u can charge double i guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aynjell Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 What everyone fails toe realize is these drivesr aren't meant to compete with sata drives. They are meant to compete with SCSI. Compared to those drives, they are insanely cheap and have an excessive amount of storage. Do some research and you'll understand. Not that I'd buy one, but these are only sata to cut the entry level cost, and everyone here should know how much a good scsi raid card is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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