WD velociraptor. It's nothing if not different

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A 2.5" 10K SATA drive in a 3.5" heatsink :eekers:

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14583

..."The VelociRaptor offers excellent performance across a wide range of applications, but its most spectacular showing was easily with IOMeter's multi-user workloads. These workloads don't simulate typical desktop environments, of course, but they're the most demanding tests we run. And they make a heck of a case for an enterprise derivative of the VelociRaptor."...

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?type=expert&aid=548&pid=2
 
So, should we welcome Western Digital to the previous generation of 10k drives, and congratulate them on making such a nice drive adapter?
 
I strongly suspect it is just screwed on. I haven't seen it, but to do otherwise would be massively stupid.... <teasing Merc to comment>
 
The product sheet says:
IcePack™ Mounting Frame – The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor is enclosed in a
3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive
extra cool when installed in a 3.5-inch drive bay.

Which implies the tray can be removed. In the specs section:
Form factor 3.5-inch*

*A 2.5-inch drive in a 3.5-inch IcePack heat sink mounting frame.
 
In stock??? I'm on the road for a while starting next week, so maybe I'll try after the Labor Day weekend.
 
LunarMist said:
In stock??? I'm on the road for a while starting next week, so maybe I'll try after the Labor Day weekend.
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I didn't check that deeply, but it doesn't look like it. Looks like you'll have to wait a bit still. You could put in an order on one of those places, at least you will be "guaranteed" one when they do get stock.
 
The drive finally hit the shelves last week. I'll order one in a week or so after returning to the real world.
 
Huh, what doors and crochet?

Does anyone know where to find the retail drive?
 
Bozo said:
WD hard drives make great door stops.
He will have to crochet (crow-shay) a cover for it.

Bozo :joker:
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Is there a problem with some WD drives? I have ~9 and they are fine.
 
Where's Mercutio when you need him...
I use WD drives almost exclusively. I've had fewer problems with them , percentage wise, than any other brand.
Some here have had different results.

Bozo :joker:
 
I use whatever offers the best capacity/dollar at the moment. At the 500GB size I've 3 Samsungs. But I also have a Seagate 750GB and a Fujitsu 80GB notebook drive (in a desktop). Those SATA drives are in my home machines/Folding farm. My work notebooks have an Hitachi and a Seagate.

I've decommissioned my PATA drives, which were a mix of Samsung, Maxtor, WD, etc. They all still work but I've moved off that connection type.

And the servers I manage have collectively 96 15K Seagates. We've lost a couple, but few enough that the MTBF holds true.
 
I have over 20TB of storage and really don't keep track of all the brands. Here are several drives in use now. For some reason the 1TB Samsung F1 thinks it is external and does not report info.
 
20K RPM - WTF? The WD3000GLFS has just recently become available. The 300GB is worthless for me, but there is no single-platter model.
 
ddrueding said:
I see a 4GB iRAM in there...sweet.
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Unfortunately the backup battery ruptured last summer, and I could not find a replacement. Therefore the drive needs to be reinitialized and formatted every time I work on the computer or when there is an extended power failure.
 
LunarMist said:
Unfortunately the backup battery ruptured last summer, and I could not find a replacement. Therefore the drive needs to be reinitialized and formatted every time I work on the computer or when there is an extended power failure.
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From when I was looking, it seemed to be the same as a basic cordless phone battery (plug and everything). If you include some images, I could probably find one for you. There was also a few people who modded it to use an external DC brick rigged to a UPS.
 
ddrueding said:
From when I was looking, it seemed to be the same as a basic cordless phone battery (plug and everything). If you include some images, I could probably find one for you. There was also a few people who modded it to use an external DC brick rigged to a UPS.
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There are three contacts for the single-cell battery. Of course three contact are not necessary for charging. I suspect that the other contact is just used to indicate to the charger whether a battery is present. My battery is completely kaput (3 contacts open to wrsp to each other) so I don't know the pinout.

(Sorry for straying off the WD3000GLFS topic.)
 
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