[NBLUG/talk] Western Digital Raptor Drives

[Mark Street]

Kewl,

Yeah, there is a 74 G version, I am looking at getting a pair to do RAID 0 for 
my PVR, the mobo as a SATA controller built in with two interfaces, we shall 
see...

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:34 am, ShadowEyez wrote:
> I have the 36 gig version, I have heard that there is a new 72 gig version
> that is supposed to be a little quieter (uses the new fluid ball bearings)
> and a little faster.  My drive is not very quiet, but not like a loud
> "production" SCSI drive either.  The 2.6.X kernels do have support for the
> SATA host cards like my Silicon Image, but it is considered experimental so
> I did not compile it in.
>
> Try out the drive.  I have heard they are around $150 now, but unless you
> really need more than 36 gigs, its nice to have a fast drive!

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