WD Raptor SATA drives?????!

[acid16]

Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

 

[John]

Originally posted by: acid16
Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

Nope.

 

[AtomicDude512]

Originally posted by: acid16
Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

Oohh! Give me a link to it!

 

[Windogg]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: acid16
Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

Nope.

Expect another one to two months before they work through the disty channels.

 

[acid16]

Originally posted by: Windogg

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: acid16
Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

Nope.

Expect another one to two months before they work through the disty channels.

Damn, can't wait for them to come.... 36GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA, 5 Year Warranty, 1.2 Million MTBF............. am I the only one who thinks these will be awesome? Not to mention that A7N8X has SATA built in, so you can run Raid 0 off two of these puppies right away, almost cheaper than buying regular IDE drives. I hear the 36GB drives will default at around $150 or $160. Not bad at all (72GB is enough for me!).

 

[Agent004]

10k rpm.... how loud and how hot?

I really like the 5 yr warranty

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: acid16

Originally posted by: Windogg

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: acid16
Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

Nope.

Expect another one to two months before they work through the disty channels.

Damn, can't wait for them to come.... 36GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA, 5 Year Warranty, 1.2 Million MTBF............. am I the only one who thinks these will be awesome? Not to mention that A7N8X has SATA built in, so you can run Raid 0 off two of these puppies right away, almost cheaper than buying regular IDE drives. I hear the 36GB drives will default at around $150 or $160. Not bad at all (72GB is enough for me!).

"A7N8X " Your sig lists a K7S5A ???

Athlon XP 1600+ / 1.4ghz
ECS Elite K7S5A
512mb PC2100 DDRAM
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
GeForce2 64MB MX400
AOpen 50X Cd-Rom

Thorin

 

[acid16]

Originally posted by: thorin

Originally posted by: acid16

Originally posted by: Windogg

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: acid16
Anyone know any place selling them yet?????

Nope.

Expect another one to two months before they work through the disty channels.

Damn, can't wait for them to come.... 36GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA, 5 Year Warranty, 1.2 Million MTBF............. am I the only one who thinks these will be awesome? Not to mention that A7N8X has SATA built in, so you can run Raid 0 off two of these puppies right away, almost cheaper than buying regular IDE drives. I hear the 36GB drives will default at around $150 or $160. Not bad at all (72GB is enough for me!).

"A7N8X " Your sig lists a K7S5A ???

Athlon XP 1600+ / 1.4ghz
ECS Elite K7S5A
512mb PC2100 DDRAM
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
GeForce2 64MB MX400
AOpen 50X Cd-Rom

Thorin

Well, not that it's reeeeealllllllly your business, but if you must know, i'm putting together an A7N8X system. I just havent updated my sig yet (dont really want to until its all put together). Even if I wasn't though, doesn't mean I can't get excited about the WD raptors... ............ right now though, the only thing missing from my system will be the HD. Im gonna have to use an old 40GB until these raptor babies come!

 

[thorin]

Geez dude have yer morning coffee or whatever .... it was a simple question

Thorin

 

[acid16]

Originally posted by: thorin
Geez dude have yer morning coffee or whatever .... it was a simple question

Thorin

And I gave it a simple answer... don't see anything wrong with my reply... what do you expect, hugs and kisses all the time with a little cherry on top?????

 

[thorin]

I do like cherries

BTW I have seen these somewhere for Pre-Oder I'll have to dif around and see if I can find it again.

Thorin

 

[acid16]

Originally posted by: thorin
I do like cherries

BTW I have seen these somewhere for Pre-Oder I'll have to dif around and see if I can find it again.

Thorin

Thanks. It will be interesting to see what the reviews are like when they are released. Noise will be interesting. I want whispah quiet hard drives. At 10k rpm, they shouldn't be too loud.

 

[Windogg]

Originally posted by: acid16

Originally posted by: thorin
I do like cherries

BTW I have seen these somewhere for Pre-Oder I'll have to dif around and see if I can find it again.

Thorin

Thanks. It will be interesting to see what the reviews are like when they are released. Noise will be interesting. I want whispah quiet hard drives. At 10k rpm, they shouldn't be too loud.

Checking WD's site, it seems to show the new Raptor will emit around the same amount of noise as the current generation JB drives. I must say that 10K RPM SCSI drives have gotten significantly quieter over the years so hopefully they improved that for SATA.