Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor in PC gaming Tech http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20364147 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:07:22 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:07:22 EDT Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20507260 Mchart : I'd still purchase a larger capacity 7200rpm seagate with perpendicular recording, over these. There is little difference in terms of real-world noticeable performance, they are much cheaper, and you get a lot more storage.
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said by The Flash See Profile :

For 300 bucks, I'd rather go for capacity than speed.
it would be sweet in side an PS3 :p

there would be less LAGS with GTA
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said by signmeuptoo See Profile :

I agree, highly improper. If scientific workers did things like that, they'd get fired.
But then we are not talking about scientific web site and probably makes it easier to maintain as AthlGrond alludes to I think.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20368944 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:22:39 EDT Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20367904 AthlGrond :
said by knightry See Profile :

My point is that the page shouldn't have been included before they had any numbers. Leave it out of the report for now, include it once you have the data. It's like publishing a researching paper and leaving the Results Conclusion section as [insert results and conclusions here].
They use an automated system of compiling reliability reports so that they don't have to update their reviews later when the information becomes available. I agree that they have a clumsy way of presenting the lack of information. :D

Since the reliability information isn't the primary reason people are reading a review of a new hard drive, it could hardly be likened to the main conclusions of a research paper. My analogy would be that it's like a computer program where there is a menu option that doesn't work until they have released the first (or second, or...) update for the software.

They added that section to their reviews after the IBM Death Desk Star fiasco, and I don't think that they've updated the way it works since then.
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said by knightry See Profile :

And what reliability!

quote:
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS is more reliable than (collecting data, check back soon!)% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.


*sigh*
Well the drive is new, give it time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364863 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:30:41 EDT Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364548 knightry : And what reliability!

quote:
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS is more reliable than (collecting data, check back soon!)% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.


*sigh*
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said by jouno53 See Profile :

Or a better video card for games.
Not knocking that. :)

If however you are putting together a top end gaming box, at some point improving the graphics will cost incrementally more than the performance gain that you would notice by improving the hard drive.
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"You are technically correct. The best kind of correct." -Bureaucrat 1.0]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364147 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:58:33 EDT Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364087 AthlGrond :
said by The Flash See Profile :

For 300 bucks, I'd rather go for capacity than speed.
We must be playing different kinds of games.
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"You are technically correct. The best kind of correct." -Bureaucrat 1.0]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364087 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:47:11 EDT Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363625 jouno53 : Or a better video card for games.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363625 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:21:55 EDT Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363379 The Flash : For 300 bucks, I'd rather go for capacity than speed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363379 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:32:50 EDT Western Digital VelociRaptor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363264 AthlGrond : »www.storagereview.com/WD3000BLFS.sr

Western Digital just came out with their replacement for the 10,000 RPM Raptor hard drive: the VelociRaptor.

Now 300GB in a 2.5" SATA drive, still 10,000 RPM. Pretty impressive performance improvements from the Raptor (~20% better in their game benchmarks), and nice power and noise reductions.

Nicely timed for a summer computer overhaul... :D
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