I could have said no. These are nothing more than ewaste today.
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. 🤘
Came here to say this. Think I had a 40gb.
only time I ever stroked and striped a pair outside of a data center. So much noise tho.
1337 mode: engaged but rusty
no you can definitely say no
Did you fuck someone out of that or did you fuck yourself?
Just to be sure, these were discontinued, right?
nice iv got the 1tb drive i think its in my pc not used tho lol
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
What a blast from the past! I still have my 74GB floating around somewhere.
I used to have the 1TB velociraptors with the Icepack back in the days.
Aren’t any modern HDDs faster? Even 5400 rpm HDDs because when capacity grows one rotation of the disk will contain more data.
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 remember when i got my 1tb drive back in the day,i remember putting battlefield 4 on all 3 of my diff drives to test speeds. VelociRaptor/ssd/hdd.
my speed test was “how fast i got into server and loaded up and in game”
hdd i would join, there would be 12+ppl already in.
VelociRaptor normally around 5 ppl already in.
and at that year i think it was 2013 not to many ppl with ssd’s i would be 1st or 4th person in and would be able to take the attack heli every game lol.
good find that will be fun to mess with, spin one up and hold it move a little to feel the torque lolI had a 150GB WD Raptor that died after two years. When I sent it to WD for a warranty replacement in 2011, I remember thinking “maybe they’ll send me back a Velociraptor…”
And they did! They sent me a 300GB Velociraptor. I was ecstatic.
My video editing PC had two 500GB velociraptors in RAID-0.
Very fast at the time, though I’m sure it would feel sluggish compared to my current NVMe