Third Generation Raptor Found In The Wild.

[BabyBalrog]

Off of a german website

 

http://www.alternate.de/html/shop/productD...18variantInfo

 

Aparently it is still 10k RPM but the connection is now 300 MB ( sata 2.5 ?) and the cache has doubled to 16MB, and the drive now consist of 150GB of storage. Now if this is the use of two 75 GB platters that would be sad because 80 GB platter are the smallest found in desktop hard drives nowadays, converly if it uses a 150 GB platter it will be the secodn largest platter in use, falling short of Seagate's 160 GB 7200.9 seirers drive.

 

 

Could this have anything to do with the anounced Maxtor Seagate merger?

[romeo55]

I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats why the rapter have been going down in price!!!!!!!!!!!!! my thread here

 

http://forums.overclockersclub.com/Are_Rap...edl-t62005.html

 

I knew it!!! I knew iT!!!!!

[BabyBalrog]

A few things

 

1) web page doens't have many details so not sure if this part is fully sata 2.5 compatable, (NCQ, Stagered spin up, etc.

 

2) WD's wed page doesn't have the new raptor there yet, so i ca't find out how many platers..

[WhenKittensATK]

yea i saw it in the catalog newegg gave me when i ordered my stuff last week.

[ClayMeow]

300mb? I think you mean 3.0GB/s, and that would be SATAII. Never heard of Sata 2.5

[apostolics]

to bad i cant read what they are saying since its not in english or spanish

[mikey390]

Translated version from google

"Description:

The new Western digitally RWS gate brings more place, more achievement and most modern SATA2 feature such as NCQ. to it the used reliability on SCSI level as well as simplified connection types. The RWS gate particularly for servers as well as NAS/SAN applications was developed and is optimally for the employment in high speedable workstations and/or in the Gaming range suitable, where compromiseless achievement and Zuvlaessigkeit are in demand. The new RWS gate is thereby the momentarily fastest SATA non removable disk."

[Guest Raven65]

humm,I just might Raid Again.

[Uber]

o_O those would be nice.

 

i still think ill get 2x74 gigers....

[Bionix]

this was a pleasant suprise, I thought this was about rare birds O_o

[Kash]

It's been a year since I came in possession of my pair of jewels. Best investment I ever made for my system. 7200RPM drives seem so SLOW in comparison now......

[BabyBalrog]

300mb?  I think you mean 3.0GB/s, and that would be SATAII.  Never heard of Sata 2.5

602656[/snapback]

 

No i mean 300 MB/sec which is a SATA speck, oft refered to as SATA 2, however the SATA foundation ment for SATA2 to not jsut be a speed increase but also one of features (NCQ, hot swap, stagered spin up) so they redefines retroactivly sata 2 to mean 300MB/sec transefers and sata 2.5 to inclue all the fetures, but dont worry becuase very few actually use it right, check anantech's areticle titels, "what's in a a name".

 

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/viewblogpost.aspx?bid=245

 

So now i'm confused because they name the spec as 3.0 Gb/sec yet the actual transfer is 300 MB/sec it might have somethign to do with how sata uses a 10 bit word, but i'm nto sure. Anyways the MAX bandwioth comign off the new Raptor is 300 MB/s which is only seen on cache hits... but i ahve hopes of over 100MB/s streaming.