price per gb per watt hour = massive ripoff in operating expenses
they use 6.08watts each… 12.16 watts for 300GB of storage is not good
Hehehehe, blast from the past. I used to have two in RAID0 in my gaming rig back in the day. 🤘
only time I ever stroked and striped a pair outside of a data center. So much noise tho.
1337 mode: engaged but rusty
Came here to say this. Think I had a 40gb.
One of those requires more power than two modern 22 TB drives, lol.
no you can definitely say no
fun memorabilia to put on display on the shelf!
I could have said no. These are nothing more than ewaste today.
It feels like a missed opportunity to still not reuse the velociraptor name for high end ssd’s or something.
True but after the Raptor they pretty much designated the “Black” label for high performance and gaming. I bought the 1TB Black when it first came out and it outperformed my 150GB 10kRPM Raptor even though it was only 7200RPM
I just shucked one of these and threw it in my R730 today haha!
Had 2x 10000rpm ones in raid in the day playing wow…
ok so that is like 4 people that did this and that is wild to me.
Did you stroke your partitions or just raid?
Checked the drives in CDI and they’ve got less hours than my WD Blue 1TB that’s probably 5+ years old!
DataHoarderNostalgia! I remember the reputation these had, and the cool name. Before SSDs, I was big into these.
More background:
https://louwrentius.com/an-ode-to-the-10000-rpm-western-digital-velociraptor.html
For consumers and enthusiast, the Raptor was an amazing boot drive. The 74 GB model was large enough to hold the operating system and applications. The bulk of the data would still be stored on a second hard drive either also connected through SATA or even still through PATA.
I finally deprecated my VelociRaptor 160GB last week. Was using it as a Linux boot drive for experimenting, but was time to get a cheap SSD for same task. She served me well for over a decade.
Aren’t any modern HDDs faster? Even 5400 rpm HDDs because when capacity grows one rotation of the disk will contain more data.
Just to be sure, these were discontinued, right?
I have had a few without the icepacks for years now. They run so hot and I never built a system to deal with it. Please do a follow up comparing seek and read/write stats with modern fastbois.