Western Digital is making a play for the enterprise storage market today by stripping the bulky heat sink attached to its 10,000RPM VelociRaptor drives and liberating the small form-factor disk that's been locked inside all along. The number two hard drive supplier technically has offered a 2.5-inch VelociRaptor HDD since April …
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Posted Wednesday 23rd July 2008 22:04 GMT
Now is the time to try and sell HDDs in this form factor, for such high-end use, before flash-based storage takes over the segment (all it takes is adding some storage volume/density to it).
It is dumping, fire-sale time! All the stuck kit must go NOW, before it gets rotten (or rust, in this case)!
Mine is the one with 2.5" wide pockets.
Posted Wednesday 23rd July 2008 22:04 GMT
...thank you for that chart. Made my day.
Posted Wednesday 23rd July 2008 23:03 GMT
... a chart for Seagate Cheetahs?
No console fanboi's here i see ;p
Posted Thursday 24th July 2008 10:57 GMT
Where's the inclusion of the Battlestar Galactica Raptors on your chart? They may be larger than both the WD drives and indeed the Cretaceous namesake but I dare say they're a lot more evolved than a hard disk drive...
Posted Thursday 24th July 2008 12:59 GMT
Indeed if you start googling you can see that most places say that removing the heatsink improves the drive. Apart from making it "smaller", it produces alot less noise. The "heatsink" actually generates alot of noise and doesn't cause the temperature to drop.
I suppose it does look cool, but at the cost of noise is stupid. WD should have never put in the heatsink in the first place. Unnecessary waste of resources.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article844-page1.html
Suppose WD should be congratulated on reducing some of the unnecessary waste with their products tho... maybe HP could take a leaf out of their book :)
Posted Thursday 24th July 2008 12:59 GMT
If this'll finally allow the PS3 to load from HD quicker than the 360 can manage from it's DVD drive.
Posted Thursday 24th July 2008 19:30 GMT
did I miss a meeting where it was agreed to replace English with pure Gibberish?
Paris, she likes a bit of French, so I'm told...
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