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10th April 2010, 15:37
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters a market teeming with SSDs whose split-millisecond access times blunt its previously formidable spindle speed advantage. Can the new Raptor keep up? http://techreport.com/articles.x/18712
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10th April 2010, 16:41
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| I don't know why they are even creating new velociraptors. Their added performance aren't worth the extra costs and putting two 3,5" HDD in RAID would probably give better results. Even a single SSD combined with a normal disk would be a better choice. |
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10th April 2010, 18:06
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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|  here's why 
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10th April 2010, 18:32
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| Intel Postville 80Gb €200 WD Caviar Black 1TB €100 1,08TB of storage and incredible performance for €300, only €50 more as a Velociraptor 600Gb ... 3x WD Caviar Black 1TB in RAID €300 3Tb of storage and maybe even better performance 1x Velociraptor 600Gb €250 |
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10th April 2010, 19:55
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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80gb for OS and Apps on a fast disk and then the rest is slow storage? possible, but not the same as 600gb on "fast" storage
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10th April 2010, 23:39
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That's 1TB fast and safe storage. It's cheap and not efficient, but it works. Or 3x Western Digital Caviar Black 500Gb in RAID5 €150 Highpoint RocketRAID 2300 €120 Still 1TB of storage, fast and safe at only €270 If you have a good onboard RAID controller, you can even drop the Highpoint card Now that I'm thinking of it, the Velociraptor is a lot more compact, only two cables to connect. In compact computer this would be great, but most compact computer don't have a lot of computing power or they are supposed to be quiet (eg. HTPC). Last edited by wutske : 10th April 2010 at 23:43. Reason: wrong highpoint card, this one has internal connectors :) | |
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11th April 2010, 00:31
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| consumer level RAID is never "safe storage", especially using onboard raid on motherboards; I would not recommend RAID0+1; either use external RAID card and RAID 5 as you suggest; but than we're talking data storage. for a workstation fast access reigns supreme; which is where SSD dominate! I would never consider buying a VelociRaptor drive, even if it spun 15k rpm and was 2tb in size; it's too noisy and slower in random IO compared to SSD.
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