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Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:12 pm Reply and quote this post
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In terms of raw performance, the Raptor 150 is unbeatable at this point. Most new Serial ATA-II/300 class 7,200 RPM hard drives can push around 50-55 MB/s sustained transfer rates, whereas the Raptor 74 GB could push around 65 MB/s. The Raptor 150 GB one ups them all, maxing out at around 77 MB/s for a single drive, and improvement of roughly 18% over their previous generation product. Write speeds are improved as well, as our previous page of benchmarks showed. Take a few of these drives in RAID-0, and you have some heavy duty enterprise class storage. With four disks in RAID-0 we were able to push over 300 MB/s of sustained data read speed. Simply an amazing amount of storage power at one’s fingertips.

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Great performance, except I'd get a headache, listening to 48dBA of sound every time the drive went seeking.

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Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:23 pm Reply and quote this post
Wow that is really good!, and yea it would get annoying real  quick.
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Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:43 pm Reply and quote this post
I'd love to have one of those Raptors, if only they weren't so expensive. :P
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Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:08 pm Reply and quote this post
if i was buying a nice computer with raptor drives like that i'd buy a mini refrigerator and put my computer in it and i wouldent be bugged by noise.
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Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:17 pm Reply and quote this post
lol, actually that might work kaveman.
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Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:07 pm Reply and quote this post
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if i was buying a nice computer with raptor drives like that i'd buy a mini refrigerator and put my computer in it and i wouldent be bugged by noise.

The refridgerator would also cool the drives. But, if condensation occurs, you have a problem. ;)

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Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:14 pm Reply and quote this post
yea, thats true predator so i guess that kinda ruins the refridgerator idea huh?
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Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:39 pm Reply and quote this post
What about a bag around it?
Anyways, I think the new raptor looks sweet.  Wish I could get my hands on one of them.

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