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. 🤘
only time I ever stroked and striped a pair outside of a data center. So much noise tho.
1337 mode: engaged but rusty
Came here to say this. Think I had a 40gb.
I could have said no. These are nothing more than ewaste today.
no you can definitely say no
fun memorabilia to put on display on the shelf!
One of those requires more power than two modern 22 TB drives, lol.
What a blast from the past! I still have my 74GB floating around somewhere.
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
I still have 5x of those in RAID5 that work fine.
Hey don’t forget the 150 gb model they made with the transparent window to see it working.
That was so damn cool back then.
Window kit on the side panel Chrome skull fan grills with the LED eyes CCFL blue tube in the bottom Then add in a HDD raptor with a window kit
You’d be king of the lan party
I’ve modded a old HDD with a cutout in the top case, and glued a plastic layer over it. was cool to see.
Didn’t last more than a hour before it was dead.
Offtopic: I just bought a Lexar M.2 with 4TB for 189€, the price range is getting very good! They are advertised with 7GB read/write… let’s see what your Velociraptors can do :D
Had 2x 10000rpm ones in raid in the day playing wow…
ok so that is like 4 people that did this and that is wild to me.
Did you stroke your partitions or just raid?
I use one for dedicated storage for a Hyper-V virtual machine. The whirring serves as notification that something has happened.
I 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.
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.