Western Digital’s Serial ATA-150 Hard Disk Drive for servers and workstation unveiled in early February has by now reached retail channels all around the world, as I found out today.
The WD Raptor hard disk drive is available in a 36GB capacity at this time. Average seek time of the HDD is 5.2ms, it features 10 000rpm motor and boasts with 1.2 million hours MTBF as well as five-year warranty. With 8MB buffer and faster motor, the product promises to be a very fast one; for instance, Western Digital declares internal transfer speed of up to 102MB/s.
In Japan 36GB WD Raptor HDDs are sold for about $180, while in the USA such products cost starting from $165. It is definitely quite a high price for a desktop HDD, however, it is considerably cheaper compared to SCSI drives for servers and workstations.
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IT IS NOT CHEAPER OR FASTER ! Compare it's price to Fujitsu MAP3367 10K rpm U320 SCSI ($159 - see pricewatch.com) and performance isn't any better either - see storagereview.com .
[Posted by: Igor | Date: 04/04/03 08:41:06 AM]
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I think storageview had a bad firmware when they reviewed the Raptor, and 2:nd, you need an SCSI-controler to use an SCSI disk, wich about none motherboards based on regular chipsets have.
[Posted by: Kr^PacMAn | Date: 04/04/03 11:57:44 AM]
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The Fujitsu MAP3367 is a SCSI320 drive, hardly comparable in price, especially once the whole package is considered. In order to benefit from the capabilities of this drive, you would also need to have at least a workstation grade motherboard supporting PCIX-266 or greater, an appropriate SCSI320 controller card, and a fat wallet.
The SCSI 320 drives are great, don't get me wrong. They are just a bit over the top if you are the typical mainstream desktop enthusiast. Add a RAID-0 to the SATA-150 mix (yes, you would have to buy another drive), and you pack a package that rates right up there with many basic SCSI configs. Sometime next year the new SATA-300 drives should emerge, and then things get even more interesting.
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