MX21900
Western Digital
VelociRaptor 150GB 10,000rpm SATA II w/ 16MB Cache
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MX21900
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- ILC: WD1500HLFS
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Awesome value
6/13/2011 8:22:32 PMJames Parenteau from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- Boot up time starting a P4-3Ghz with the Velociraptor is faster start up than with a AMD-Phenom 9850 with two Hitachi 2GB RAID 0 on LSI 9650 controller. (same OS). Latencies obviously make the difference when loading an OS.
- Weaknesses:
- Sustained transfer rates are not even close to the 2TB drives, so large file transfers are better suited to 2 to 3tb+ 7200rpm drives.
- Summary:
- If you use cheap onboard raid with two of these in RAID 0 config, they will outperform any other single magnetic hard drive on the market for minimal cost. This drive is 4 years old and still working 100% fast and reliable. (SMART reports no issues) If capacity and reliability is not a concern, there are always faster SSD's. These are definitely more reliable.
Quick
5/2/2010 9:27:53 AMSteve from Ontario writes:
- Strengths:
- High transfer rate in Raid0
Overall high performance - Weaknesses:
- Cost and heat generated.
User should know how to configure raid, and administer it properly. - Summary:
- Been running a pair of these in Raid0 for almost a year. High transfer rates - quick boots. HDTune gives me a peak rating of 240MB/s, average over whole drive is still respectable 180MB/s.
However, always have image backups of your Raid0 disk to another drive - failure is always a risk.
Not for the faint of heart....
5/5/2009 2:11:20 PMHank from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- - Speed
- Speed
- Speed - Weaknesses:
- - Bad Marketing.
- Available to uneducated buyers. - Summary:
- Plain and simple. If you are looking for a single drive, don't waste your time on this unit. These drives are built for RAID.
I currently run 3 of these in a RAID 5 as my Boot Volume and I couldn't be happier.
I have run Raptors in RAID as primary Boot Volume in every system for the last 5 years and have sampled nearly every model of Raptor from the original 36GB till now, with the exception of the latest 300GB VR.....as I am running the 150GB VR's model x 3. These drives rock.
10k ??
3/15/2009 3:32:43 PMshane from edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- None over other drives
- Weaknesses:
- small capacity for dollar and less speed than other much bigger drives
- Summary:
- Dont waste your time
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2/17/2009 6:17:50 PMEvan from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- After going from 7200 rpm, to 10k, you can feel the difference immediately!
Booting windows vista 64 bit on this hard drive and i have nothing but praise! - Weaknesses:
- $/Gb
- Summary:
- As a system builder i highly recommend this as a boot disk, makes everything perform that much faster!!
Good stuff.
2/5/2009 5:34:15 AMMike from Spruce Grove writes:
- Strengths:
- - Light
- Small
- Effecient
- Fast - Weaknesses:
- Too bad it's not an X25.
- Summary:
- Great drives, definately not possible to match the speed/responsiveness with 7200rpm drives in raid configs like people think (I have 4 1tb drives in raid 10)
Great for running virrtual machines, I was able to startup 2 windows 7, 1 03 server and 1 08 server at the same time and they all booted in under a minute due to the nice read speed/times I get in raid1. Until SSD's mature more I'll never leave raptor territory (or until sas drives get more desktop controllers-2 drives on 1366 sucks)
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