WD Velociraptor still worth the premium price?

[BoomerD]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-22136555-L0D

 

[Sleepingforest]

I'll reiterate what I said before to be more clear: The most cost effective solution right now is probably a basic 1-2TB 7200RPM HHD coupled with a small 64GB SSD for caching as long as you're on Sandy Bridge or better (Z77 or Z68 chipset) and have Intel's Smart Response Technology (SRT).

Anandtech has done tests which show a SATAIII 7200RPM HDD with a 64GB SRT cache is basically indistinguishable from a SSD. Furthermore, we can see from Anandtech's Bench that even a tiny, crappy little Kingston SSDNow 40GB drive beats or ties with the WD Velociraptor in all but two categories: PCMarkVantage's suite for movies, and the Heavy Workload's average IOPS. This is the worst SSD in the whole suite.

The bottom line: you can buy a large HDD for $70-100 and spend around $80 on a reliable, small SSD and speed up your whole drive.

It is absolutely not worth your money to buy a Velociraptor drive.

 

[BoomerD]

I'll reiterate what I said before to be more clear: The most cost effective solution right now is probably a basic 1-2TB 7200RPM HHD coupled with a small 64GB SSD for caching as long as you're on Sandy Bridge or better (Z77 or Z68 chipset) and have Intel's Smart Response Technology (SRT).

Anandtech has done tests which show a SATAIII 7200RPM HDD with a 64GB SRT cache is basically indistinguishable from a SSD. Furthermore, we can see from Anandtech's Bench that even a tiny, crappy little Kingston SSDNow 40GB drive beats or ties with the WD Velociraptor in all but two categories: PCMarkVantage's suite for movies, and the Heavy Workload's average IOPS. This is the worst SSD in the whole suite.

The bottom line: you can buy a large HDD for $70-100 and spend around $80 on a reliable, small SSD and speed up your whole drive.

It is absolutely not worth your money to buy a Velociraptor drive.

Unfortunately, for now, I'm not running Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge. (i5-760 and P55 board)
For now, buying both just isn't in the budget.
(keep in mind, I'm disabled and retired...on a VERY tight fixed income)

 

[Fallengod]

Wow that's a very good deal actually.

If I wasn't in canada I would consider it for just a games drive but by the time its shipped across the border it may be higher.

Yeah, a few times they had the 600gb Vraptor on sale for $100 at amazon. Doesnt look like it now though. : / I was tempted myself as thats a fairly big bang 4 buck.

Newegg has a $50 off code for it, which makes it $110 right now.

I do see other peoples point though. Ive been kind of trying to get to a SSD also but up till recently they have been too much for me to justify it.

Btw, you need some more space man. You only have a 250gb as the storage drive? Damn...

 

[BoomerD]

Yeah, a few times they had the 600gb Vraptor on sale for $100 at amazon. Doesnt look like it now though. : / I was tempted myself as thats a fairly big bang 4 buck.

Newegg has a $50 off code for it, which makes it $110 right now.

I do see other peoples point though. Ive been kind of trying to get to a SSD also but up till recently they have been too much for me to justify it.

Btw, you need some more space man. You only have a 250gb as the storage drive? Damn...

It's even worse...I have a dual-boot system. Vista 64 on the 250 Gb drive, XP Pro on the 80...

 

[Fallengod]

It's even worse...I have a dual-boot system. Vista 64 on the 250 Gb drive, XP Pro on the 80...

Thats rough man, thats like a 2001 setup.

I have a 1TB backup, a 640GB backup, and my main 150GB vraptor and I am almost out of space.

 

[BoomerD]

Hell, that drive is only about 60% full...the 80 is much fuller, but only because I have stuff stored on it for when I replace the 250. (and I'm getting ready to burn that stuff to a disk since that drive is so bad)

 

[DominionSeraph]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-22136555-L0D

Ah, pcpartspicker doesn't show that $50 promo.
At $110, it would be right at my personal tipping point compared to this. But I don't value warranty as much as you do so the 1 year vs 5 doesn't factor as strongly in.
The nearest 5 year warranty 7200RPM drive seems to be a Caviar Black at $91. If you don't need the 400GB extra space, the Velociraptor for $19 more is a really easy choice.

 

[BoomerD]

Ah, pcpartspicker doesn't show that $50 promo.
At $110, it would be right at my personal tipping point compared to this. But I don't value warranty as much as you do so the 1 year vs 5 doesn't factor as strongly in.
The nearest 5 year warranty 7200RPM drive seems to be a Caviar Black at $91. If you don't need the 400GB extra space, the Velociraptor for $19 more is a really easy choice.

I've had good luck with Seagate drives over the years, but for me, the one year warranty makes that a no-go.

 

[Fallengod]

The 600GB Vraptor for $110 at Newegg right now is the best bet with 5 year warranty heh. Decide quickly, it ends tomorrow. Shipping is free too if you have shoprunner(which is free to sign up for still).

I just ordered one of these intel x25-m 160gb SSD's from tigerdirect 5 minutes ago. Its only $90AR. It would save you not having to worry about getting one next year. Then just get yourself a bigger storage drive and be done with it.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=5250507

Ive been looking to finally get an SSD myself....

 

[BoomerD]

The 600GB Vraptor for $110 at Newegg right now is the best bet with 5 year warranty heh. Decide quickly, it ends tomorrow. Shipping is free too if you have shoprunner(which is free to sign up for still).

I just ordered one of these intel x25-m 160gb SSD's from tigerdirect 5 minutes ago. Its only $90AR. It would save you not having to worry about getting one next year. Then just get yourself a bigger storage drive and be done with it.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=5250507

Ive been looking to finally get an SSD myself....

I've been eyeballing that deal...if only it wasn't Tiger Direct...:hmm:

 

[Fallengod]

I've been eyeballing that deal...if only it wasn't Tiger Direct...:hmm:

Heh, dont let other peoples remarks mess with you. I dont order much myself there either, but I have a handful of stuff ordered from them and ive never had an issue.

The rebate doesnt go through them, it goes through 4myrebate.com which ive had nothing but a pleasant experience with.

 

[DominionSeraph]

The 600GB Vraptor for $110 at Newegg right now is the best bet with 5 year warranty heh. Decide quickly, it ends tomorrow. Shipping is free too if you have shoprunner(which is free to sign up for still).

I just ordered one of these intel x25-m 160gb SSD's from tigerdirect 5 minutes ago. Its only $90AR. It would save you not having to worry about getting one next year. Then just get yourself a bigger storage drive and be done with it.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=5250507

Ive been looking to finally get an SSD myself....

The X25-M is pretty old. Gen 3's have been seen at near 0.50/GB.
SSD deals come more often than Velociraptor deals, and Caviar Blacks or enterprise drives seem to almost never go on sale.

For an SSD right now I'd be looking at one of these Intel 330's:
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=71145&vpn=SSDSC2CT180A3K5&manufacture=Intel&promoid=1285
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=74639&vpn=SSDSC2CT240A3K5&manufacture=Intel&promoid=1285

~66 cents/GB

 

[Fallengod]

The X25-M is pretty old. Gen 3's have been seen at near 0.50/GB.
SSD deals come more often than Velociraptor deals, and Caviar Blacks or enterprise drives seem to almost never go on sale.

For an SSD right now I'd be looking at one of these Intel 330's:
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=71145&vpn=SSDSC2CT180A3K5&manufacture=Intel&promoid=1285
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=74639&vpn=SSDSC2CT240A3K5&manufacture=Intel&promoid=1285

~66 cents/GB

Yeah I know it is old. I do see that Intel 330. I suppose at a $30 price difference you get 20gb more and a faster/newer drive. I dont know follow SSD's much, are those 330's just as reliable? Maybe that Intel 330 is the better buy. I just want one that is fairly reliable.

 

[Skott]

I may jump on that NE deal when i get home tonight. Thats pretty sweet pricing considering.

 

[bigboxes]

Its sercomstatial, if speed is your primary consern then the raptor will be worth more to you. If reliability is your primary consern then if it were me personally, no it wouldnt be worth it because a raptor will have a higher probabilty of failure.

reliability IMO = 54krpm>72krpm>raptor>ssd (current ssd's from what iv been reading anyway)

Raptors also tends to be somewhat noisy.

I can't hear my old ass Raptor. Maybe you need a quieter case.

 

[Smoblikat]

Backed up?

Geta regular HD, and then reue it when you get an SSD one day. Spending extra money on a raptor instead of putting it towards an SSD is abit of a waste.

I disagree.

A raptor is fast enough, plus if you get two cheaper smaller ones and RAID them it screams. You dont have to worry about writes or any tweaks (indexing, defrag) you just put it in and it works.

 

[Sleepingforest]

Unfortunately, for now, I'm not running Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge. (i5-760 and P55 board)
For now, buying both just isn't in the budget.
(keep in mind, I'm disabled and retired...on a VERY tight fixed income)

I'm sorry to hear that... I didn't mean to offend you or be presumptuous. The other suggestions being made are very good.

Do you have an exact budget you're trying to work under? Is there an absolute minimum of data space you must have?

 

[Makaveli]

I can't hear my old ass Raptor. Maybe you need a quieter case.

I owned one those raptors in the past and at idle I agree but when seeking it was more noticeable than any 7200rpm drive at that time.

I had it in fairly large chenming Case with a fan controller and 5 case fans. So it was easy for me to turn down all fans including Cpu cooler and just listen to the drives.

 

[Zap]

reliability IMO = 54krpm>72krpm>raptor>ssd (current ssd's from what iv been reading anyway)

VelociRaptors are enterprise drives, so they are built to a higher standard... supposedly.

I've been eyeballing that deal...if only it wasn't Tiger Direct...:hmm:

Until they screw up again, TD has been pretty good even with rebates. Took a couple lawsuits...

I owned one those raptors in the past and at idle I agree but when seeking it was more noticeable than any 7200rpm drive at that time.

The 2.5" VelociRaptors are quieter than the old 3.5" Raptors, even in seeks.

 

[wansurfer]

Nice. This thread is about the same things I've been thinking about. :hmm:

I saw the deal for the 600 GB Veloci's, too. I was even thinking about doing something crazy like buying 3 of them and put them in RAID 0. Then I was thinking of doing something even more crazy and spendy like buying a $200 - $300 dedicated RAID controller to use with the drives.

I have an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (not Gen 3) motherboard. However, I checked and noticed that if I use the board's second PCIE x16 slot to connect a RAID controller then I think I'll lose full x16 on the connector for the graphics card. I'm not sure how the board's third full sized PCIE slot is supposed to work. There's some confusing things in the motherboard's manual. I haven't figured out all of the details for this, yet. I'm just thinking.

I guess I should use the motherboard's built-in RAID controller. However, there's only two SATA III ports for the Intel chipset based controller. There's an integrated Marvel controller that provides two more SATA III ports but I have no idea what they support and I shouldn't be able to put two drives on the Intel SATA III ports and one drive on a Marvel port and have all three in RAID 0 anyway. Besides that, I also read there may be some limitations to the Marvel controllers throughput.

There's 4 Intel SATA II ports- 3 Gbps. However, I don't know if having 3 Veloci's in RAID 0 and connected to SATA II would result in a bottleneck. Can anybody tell me if that would work well?

I like the 5 year warranty of the Veloci's and if I buy them then I plan to have some kind of regular (and automated as much as possible) backup system so that the files that are important will be preserved if one of the Veloci's fails and breaks the array.

I was almost ready to get an SSD for caching my Western Digital Black 1 TB drive. However, I want to be able to dual boot with Linux and I have read that it may not be impossible to get Linux to work with SSD caching but I think it doesn't always work and I don't want to mess with setting it up. I thought about just getting a big SSD and using it as a primary drive but unless I partition it and install Linux on it too then a Linux based OS won't get any benefit from it and if I did partition the SSD and install Linux on it then the partition for Windows would be even smaller. I already have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on my 1TB WD drive. I could set up redirections for certain Windows folders or maybe mount a slower spinning drive to a folder on the SSD but I'd rather not.

Originally when I bought the 1TB WD Black drive I was planning to get a few more of the same model (FAEX I think) later and use some kind of RAID setup with the chipset's RAID but then I found out that Western Digital had been messing around with the drive's TLER fearture and the drive's may no longer work reliably in a hardware based RAID setup.

I read and heard many times that the Samsung 830's were about as good of an SSD as you could get. Unfortunately those aren't made anymore. Perhaps the 840's will take the place of the 830's in the market and have the same good reputation.

I don't like TigerDirect. If their site tells you that an item is shipped from a third party warehouse and ships in about 2 days then don't believe them. I ordered something like that 3 weeks ago and it still hasn't shipped. I've tried contacting their customer support 3 different ways many times. I got through to somebody using the live chat service twice and both times were nonproductive. The rebate I was going to use for what I ordered from TigerDirect won't work now. I ordered the same item from Newegg and everything was ok. I doubt I'll never buy from TigerDirect ever again but I'm going to keep avoiding them.

Earlier I was comparing the specs of a few different hard drives. I saved the info as a table in a HTML file but I don't see a way for me to attach the file to this post so I'll try copying and pasting the text of the file. Save the text as an HTML file and then open the file in a web browser. There may be a better way for me to do this but I don't have to time to figure it out right now. I make no claims that the info is perfect and error free. Plus it is incomplete but I tried to get as many numbers as possible from the sites of the companies that make the drives. Unfortunately I didn't get as much information about the Veloci's as I wanted to.

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  normal'>3.5-inch</p>
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  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>3.5-inch</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>3.5-inch</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>RoHS compliant</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Yes</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Yes</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Yes</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Data transfer rate (max)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Buffer to host</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Host to/from drive (sustained)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6 Gb/s</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>126 MB/s</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>156 MB/s</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6 Gb/s</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6 Gb/s</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>145 MB/s</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Cache (MB)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>64</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>64</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>32</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>32</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Areal Density</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>400 Gb/in²</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>625 Gb/in<sup>2</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>569 Gb/in2</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Rotational speed (RPM)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>7200</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>7200</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>7200</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>10,000</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Average Latency (ms)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>4.2</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>4.16</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>4.17</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr style='height:67.5pt'>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:67.5pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Seek Average (ms)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Read</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Write</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Track-to-track</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Full stroke</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:67.5pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>8.9</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>10.9</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>2.0</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>21</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:67.5pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>8.5</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>9.5</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:67.5pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:67.5pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Heads/Disks</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>2/1</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>2/1</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Load/unload cycles</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>300,000</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>300,000</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>300,000</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>600,000</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Non-recoverable read errors <br>
  per bits read</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>1 in 10<sup>14</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>1 in 10<sup>14</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>1 in 10<sup>14</sup></p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>1 in 10<sup>15</sup></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Limited warranty (years)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>5</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>2</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>2</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>5</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Average power requirements</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Startup Power (A)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Read/Write  (W)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Idle  (W)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Standby  (W)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Sleep  (W)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6.8</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6.1</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0.7</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0.7</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>2.0</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>5.90</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>4.0</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0.63</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0.63</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6.4</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>3.7</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>1.0</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>1.0</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'><span style='color:red'>?</span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>6.4</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>4.3</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0.7</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0.7</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Temperature (°C)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Operating</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Non-operating</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0 to 60</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>-40 to 70</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0 to 60</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>-40 to 70</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>0 to 60</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>-40 to 70</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>5 to 55</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>-40 to 70</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Shock (Gs)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Operating (2 ms, write)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Operating (2 ms, read)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Non-operating (2 ms)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>30</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>65</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>300</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>80 (operating)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>80 (operating)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>300</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>70 (operating)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>70 (operating)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>350</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>30</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>65</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>300</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;
  padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Average acoustics (dBA)</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Idle mode</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>Performance seek mode</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>28</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>33</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>24</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>26 (operating)</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>25</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>26</p>
  </td>
  <td valign=top style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>27</p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
  normal'>34</p>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

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[BFG10K]

Anandtech has done tests which show a SATAIII 7200RPM HDD with a 64GB SRT cache is basically indistinguishable from a SSD. Furthermore, we can see from Anandtech's Bench that even a tiny, crappy little Kingston SSDNow 40GB drive beats or ties with the WD Velociraptor in all but two categories: PCMarkVantage's suite for movies, and the Heavy Workload's average IOPS. This is the worst SSD in the whole suite.

The issue with such benchmarks is that they put the caching solution (which includes hybrid drives) in the best possible light because they use multiple runs, and usually the best result. Then they move onto the next benchmark and run it multiple runs to get a good score, and so on.

That's not realistic for several reasons:

• It's not factoring the first run; the first run will generate a mundane score as it’s directly tied to the performance of the (uncached) bigger drive.
• It's not factoring data sizes that exceed the capacity of the SSD (e.g. copying a 464GB gaming library, launching multiple games in succession for benchmarking purposes, etc.).
• It's not factoring in previous runs after they've been evicted from the cache due to new benchmarks replacing them.

Here’s an example of the Momentus drives falling over when their caching breaks due to uncacheable workloads:

The VelociRaptor is perfect when you’re dealing with data sets too large - or accessed too irregularly - to be cached. Then it gives you consistent performance advantages over 7200RPM drives.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Double post.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I disagree.

A raptor is fast enough, plus if you get two cheaper smaller ones and RAID them it screams. You dont have to worry about writes or any tweaks (indexing, defrag) you just put it in and it works.

Fast enough? For what? Raptors aint much faster than regular HDs. Its still night and day performance difference between raptors and SSDs, just like with HDs.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/182?vs=532

 

[Makaveli]

VelociRaptors are enterprise drives, so they are built to a higher standard... supposedly.



Until they screw up again, TD has been pretty good even with rebates. Took a couple lawsuits...



The 2.5" VelociRaptors are quieter than the old 3.5" Raptors, even in seeks.

Agreed Zap.

However his screenshot is not for a VelociRaptor model.

If the OP is buying a brand new drive then yes but for the post I quoted its an older model.