Overclocker's dream...150GB RaptorX

[madcatmk3]

amazing, mabey I can get a customer to buy one but SATA 3.0GBS is good enough at $1 per 3 GB.
As oposed to about $.45 per GB.
How ever these seem amazing.

[yogurt_21]

Loud isnt the issue to be honest. I can handle the sound of a car engine, despite it being loud. And I can handle my air conditioner despite it being loud.

This is the most annoying pitch that just keeps you awake and makes the blood vessels in your forehead throb. Then when it works, it makes this scratching noise, like a rat ripping up carpet. Its hard to explain until you have spend the night in the same room as one.

The 74s are somewhat more refined, but still loud and annoying. Its like 30% better. But to put that in comparison, its like saying Robert Mugabe is 30% less evil than Fidel Castro.

The 36s are too small to be even remotely practical, closer in speed to a high quality 7200RPM drive in speed than to the 74GB Raptors, and can bring the most sane of people to take a cordless drill to their skulls given a long enough time frame.

I know the 74s are a bit better, and I have not personally had a 74 or 150, but this 36 really is that bad, and worse.
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???? I have run 36.7 raptors for years and haven't heard a single thing out of them. not to mention th 36.7 gb raptor is optimised for gaming, not storage, running in raid my raptors load games in half the time.


getting back on subject though is the 150GB raptor sata2 or still on stock sata?

[dsio]

Perhaps you have a later model or a quiet case?

It is very, very audible to me.

[Aedan]

Originally Posted by yogurt_21

getting back on subject though is the 150GB raptor sata2 or still on stock sata?

Still the 150MByte/sec variant of SATA.

[madcatmk3]

why didn't they go SATA2?

[yogurt_21]

lol I was afraid of that, it's so random that the fastest desktop drive doesn't run on the fastest interface, granted sata2 was a bit premature, but there is still a boost on even a 7200 rpm drive.

as for the 36.7's, i think you're either paranoind and it's all in you head, or you've got a drive about to die. a high pitched whine is usually when a hd is on it's last leg.

[madcatmk3]

how much of an advantage is SATA2?

[Aedan]

Given the performance the new Raptor is turning in, it doesn't look like SATA2 offers any advantage!

[Got EpOx]

Awesome little drive it really is the overclockers dream. I just love it!

[madcatmk3]

I have a different OC'ing dream. Where you can but cheaper parts and make them work like the more expensive one with minimal expense. Not really OC'ing a 3.0 Ghz processor to 3.6. hats just my opinion however.

[cloasters]

I'm confused, again. Is the platter sealed behind a window, or there for the world to see and, gasp, touch?

[cadaveca]

Yes, clear window is included.

[cloasters]

For what it does, I suppose that the price is reasonable. B-but I can't justify the expense.