Has anyone tried one of these yet, I’m very tempted for so many reasons :chuckle:
DT.
Be lucky if you can find them in stock :chuckle:
Rumour mill say’s there is a revision B version not yet announced but due to be announced shortly in next few weeks.
I’m quite happy with my 2x latter version Standard Raptors in Raid 0 
but keeping my eye open on a certain snippet of info.
Pray expand on that tit-bit please 
A certain paper & internet based PC mag has built a dream machine, however they have as yet to name the harddrives used due to NDA which the manufacture but back 2 weeks.
However a comment was made about a September version of a mag mentioning a revision B V-Raptor.
Thats as much as I know
ebuyer quickfind code: 144531
3884 in stock for next day delivery
DT.
Mmmm - just seen that OCZ are doing a 64Gb SATA2 SSD for around £180inc which could be quite interesting as a boot HDD
interesting things on the horizon…should look up Micron P200 ssd 
Ok not released yet but 250Mb transfer rate is somewhat tasty.
one 300Gb velociraptor installed and a noticeable difference over my aged OS on my 74Gb raptor.
I know there will always be a performance kick with a clean install, but this is nice the backups I did off the old drive are unzipping at a massive rate.
DT.
Me old trusty 36GB Raptor is still going. Wouldn’t mind a velociraptor 
Butuz
[QUOTE=DoubleTop;440144]one 300Gb velociraptor installed and a noticeable difference over my aged OS on my 74Gb raptor.
I know there will always be a performance kick with a clean install, but this is nice the backups I did off the old drive are unzipping at a massive rate.
DT.[/QUOTE]
Should do, not only have you got a speed increase from the data density increase but also it a twin processor design so it can pre-calculate its intended actions quicker and thus more IOPS to boot.
running HDtune across each HD in my system at the moment …
DT.
OK, the results are in - although this first run isn’t entirely fair as the velociraptor is on a different controller to the other drives - I’ve an Asus P5B board that has four channels on the main controller and then has a couple of IDE to go with the jmicron SATA. The velociraptor is on the jmicron and is the system drive as well, so get’s blips as the OS hits the drive 
I’ll do a better test perhaps if people are interested.
Drive 1
The original 74Gb SATA150 western digital raptor
HD Tune: WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 39.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 79.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 68.3 MB/sec
Access Time : 8.2 ms
Burst Rate : 115.0 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 1.1%
Drive 2
A Maxtor 300Gb storage and ‘temp’ drive
HD Tune: Maxtor 6B300S0 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 33.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 61.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 51.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 13.8 ms
Burst Rate : 109.9 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 0.9%
Drive 3
Here’s the surprise out the bunch, the 1Tb Western Digital ‘green power’ drive that I used for storing VM image files for work and archiving projects. I will be adding another one of these to create a mirror raid.
HD Tune: WDC WD10EACS-65D6B0 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 44.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 94.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 75.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 20.4 ms
Burst Rate : 148.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 1.5%
Drive 4
The one I’m quite impressed with the general snappyness of the OS, but as I said I know you get that from a clean install anyway - but moving large files and unzipping stored Virtual Machines was very nippy.
HD Tune: WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 13.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 117.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 97.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 7.1 ms
Burst Rate : 141.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.3%
There’s a blip it would seem everytime I run the test at about 20% of the way through where you would not expect there to be a drop in the transfer rate, it plummets down to 13.3 - in Vista with the process manager I could see if another process accessed the drive, but having ran it twice now, I’m not convinced that’s the issue. With more time and a few more moments of playing I’ll make sure, for now it’ll get the WD fitness test, after all this was an Ebay purchase
DT.
Impressive stats there
The green is a pleasant surprise, i’ve put two of those in pc’s recently, one in a Popcorn hour due to worries about heat and the other in my shuttle, the things are so much cooler than a standard drive its quite hard to understand how they put in those figures !
I would hather a guess that is due to the Jmicron & Vista combo.
seems slightly off on the upper speed also - should be around 125-130
My WD 1TB Black pulls 119 at the top end and thats a 7200rpm drive vs a 10K
but they share the same dual processing as the Vrapt.