Originally posted by: nugaluga
I know these are the fastest non scsi drives out there. Does anyone know how having a pair of these in raid compares to having just a single drive?
That's really hot with the rebate. Best price before with a rebate was $180, I think, if you bought 2. The current rebate is good for 1 or 2 drives. Very HOT, IMHO.Originally posted by: tagej
Actually, this is currently $188 with free shipping, and then there's a $20 rebate on the drive as well, so the final price is $168 shipped. Now that's a really good deal on the fastest drive you can get for your desktop. I just ordered one
Originally posted by: nugaluga
thanks for the info i been eyeing these drives for quite some time now...
weakening... must re..sssi...ssssttt
Originally posted by: lowenbotten
Originally posted by: nugaluga
thanks for the info i been eyeing these drives for quite some time now...
weakening... must re..sssi...ssssttt
Why do people keep posting these useless "I must resist" posts? That's gotten old.
Originally posted by: Yo2
Originally posted by: lowenbotten
Originally posted by: nugaluga
thanks for the info i been eyeing these drives for quite some time now...
weakening... must re..sssi...ssssttt
Why do people keep posting these useless "I must resist" posts? That's gotten old.
because it acknowledges and bumps a good deal - for instance
Originally posted by: nitrus
wow nice find Kaido this is a hot deal for people who have not yet gotten 74gig raptors, makes me wonder is a new 10k dirve is on the horizon though.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: nitrus
wow nice find Kaido this is a hot deal for people who have not yet gotten 74gig raptors, makes me wonder is a new 10k dirve is on the horizon though.
I'm not sure, but I'd imagine Maxtor's MaXLine III 250gb hard drive is one of the drives that is/will be pushing the price down. Anandtech had a great article on it the other day. It beats (usually only slightly) the Raptor in a LOT of benchmarks, which is surprising because it's only a 7200rpm drive. However, it does have a 16mb cache and something called "NCQ" (read the article for an explanation). So you get Raptor performance with more than three times the storage space.
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) must help a lot, because I remember looking at the Toshiba laptop drive that had a 16mb cache and learning that the Hitachi 60gb 2.5" drive beat it and it only had an 8mb cache. The downside (for me, at least) to this technology is that Intel makes it...the Intel ICH6 I/O controller. I don't know if that means that only Intel motherboards with this chipset can take advantage of NCQ or not. At any rate, I would take an Athlon 64 with a 74gb Raptor over an Intel 3.4Ghz P4 EE with a 250gb MaXLine III with NCQ enabled any day. But if the Athlon 64 could use NCQ, that'd be nice too. ^_^
Another feature I like about the MaXLine - Dubbed Intel's Matrix RAID, the new ICH allows for RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays to be created across partitions, and not only across physical disks. For example, using Intel's Matrix RAID, you could take two 120GB disks and make half of the new array a RAID 0 partition and the other half, a RAID 1 partition.
Pretty neat stuff...I'm glad new technology is pushing the current hot stuff down in price.
Originally posted by: nitrus
Most likely the "new pricing" is not because of the Maxline's performance because it is not currently a shipping product.
NCQ is a subset feature of the new SATA II standard, therfore is not Intel exclusive.
With WD "dumping" inventories, it may be due to :
1) wanting to increase revenue for stockholders.
2) decreased production costs and is passing on the savings.
3) increase marketshare in the enterprise/gaming market.
4) lower inventories before shipping Native SATA raptors with NCQ.
I hope its the last one.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Wow is that ever good news...I was hoping it wasn't an Intel-specific technology. And holy cow, SATA II?? I don't even have a regular SATA yet! lol.
Will native SATA raptors be faster that the current raptors? And does it have to have NCQ to be native?