[Russianhaxor]

Western Digital today announced their new WD VelociRaptor VR200M which is actually an enterprise drive which should closely be followed by the consumer version. This drive will feature sizes ranging from 150GB up to 600GB with 32MB of cache utilizing the SATA 6G interface, which should make these drives great for RAID 0. They will also come in the 2.5” formfactor, similar to the previous VelociRaptor drives and will also come with the IcePack cooler which mounts these drives into a 3.5”

More at...
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...or-drives.aspx

[Neuromancer]

Yup hopefully it is not astronomically priced like the raptors usually are.

As SSD prices continue to fall though... hmm dunno

Got my second 150GB vrap in the mail today.. so going to be able to compare some 300GB raid0 love vs my (by benchmarks) very fast $150 SSD. TBH I am not very impressed with the SSD. (240MB/s read... 100+ write speeds, .1 latency... feels no different to me, boots maybe 5 seconds faster? Apps do not appear to load quicker. Bah. Think vrap has me jaded....)

[Russianhaxor]

Looks like the price is $315 on ebay.

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Russianhaxor

Looks like the price is $315 on ebay.

They are on ebay already? linky?

[Gutterz]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Yup hopefully it is not astronomically priced like the raptors usually are.

As SSD prices continue to fall though... hmm dunno

Got my second 150GB vrap in the mail today.. so going to be able to compare some 300GB raid0 love vs my (by benchmarks) very fast $150 SSD. TBH I am not very impressed with the SSD. (240MB/s read... 100+ write speeds, .1 latency... feels no different to me, boots maybe 5 seconds faster? Apps do not appear to load quicker. Bah. Think vrap has me jaded....)

looking forward to that comparison, u should do a raid 0 compare on the raptors 2 agains ssd. Do you play games? how well does the ssd load maps? I r on single Raptor now an my bench drives are 80G Raptors. One day I'll go SSD.

[Russianhaxor]

Originally Posted by Gutterz

looking forward to that comparison, u should do a raid 0 compare on the raptors 2 agains ssd. Do you play games? how well does the ssd load maps? I r on single Raptor now an my bench drives are 80G Raptors. One day I'll go SSD.

Are batman arkham asylum and battlefield bad company 2 games?

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Gutterz

looking forward to that comparison, u should do a raid 0 compare on the raptors 2 agains ssd. Do you play games? how well does the ssd load maps? I r on single Raptor now an my bench drives are 80G Raptors. One day I'll go SSD.

I will be.. was going to be all subjective.. but I guess I should do a straight up comparison huh. That will take a while.. next project is DIcing the i7. Waiting for my VRs and Jauns GPU pot to arrive that has priority.

Dunno benchmarks are only going to show what benchmarks show. I will add the subjective benchmark to it as well.

will link to it HERE when I do it. Going to blog about my forst extreme cooling experiences first.

Originally Posted by Russianhaxor

Are batman arkham asylum and battlefield bad company 2 games?

No...

I think the only thing that count as games for me are...

PCmark 2005.. with a little 3d01-Vantage thrown in.



On a serious note... I install games once in a while (neither of them) play them religiously for week. Format my computer and wait till next year

Or so it seems. Got to much else going on have to have priorities. Games or benching... not enough time for either let alone both.

[Gutterz]

um yes? Kinda lost me on that 1. Have you played BC2 on ssd an mechanical drive? an seen a differance in loading maps?

Are batman arkham asylum and battlefield bad company 2 games?

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Gutterz

um yes? Kinda lost me on that 1. Have you played BC2 on ssd an mechanical drive? an seen a differance in loading maps?

Sorry went off on a rant and edited it.

And no effectively... I dont game. I do... but havent in months.

oh and vrap to rap.. no comparison. 2 80GB raptors dont = a 150GB vrap in my experience.

[Russianhaxor]

Originally Posted by Gutterz

um yes? Kinda lost me on that 1. Have you played BC2 on ssd an mechanical drive? an seen a differance in loading maps?

I was being facetious.

I have played it on an HDD vs SSD and load times were shorter, but the most important thing was that i didn't notice lag.

The only problem though, was that i had switched from a gtx 260 to a 4890, so i might reinstall the game again to compare.