Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
And it appears is several important benchmarks.
Figures from tomshardware HDD charts.
Average Read Throughput
Samsung f3 = 115.8 MB/s
600GB VR = 131.7 MB/s
Average Write Throughput
Samsung F3 = 115.3 MB/s
600GB VR = 130.4 MB/s
Average Read Seek
Samsung F3 = 13.6 ms
600GB VR = 7 ms
I'm still not convinced that this is going to translate to any noticable performance improvement for anything but the most IO intensive of tasks.
I had a 300GB HLFS Velociraptor and it does not worth the price premium.
It's not faster than any proper HDD (e.g. WD black)
even if some becnhmark show a little bit of difference then you still won't notice anything...not to mention the awful noise it can produce.
btw, if you compare a very old Velociraptor to a new 1TB hdd, it's no wonder slower....the performance of the old raptors equals to a new 5400rpm laptop drive...(the tech is advancing, haha)
I would pick a 80GB intel G2 which is relatively cheap and you will notice the difference.
I reckon they will stop the whole vr thing as there's no sane person who would buy one (furthermore WD entered the SSD market a while ago)
also, If you want to stay with mechanical drives then it makes more sense to stripe 2 good HDDs, it will outperform the VR and it provides some (not much) visible results for cheaper.
Uhh, no, it doesn't. Not even remotely close.
So not only do you go with one cheaper, less reliable disk, you go with two, and stripe them all in the hope that you *might* beat synthetic benchmarks and still fail in real world performance? You must really hate your data.
yes it does, I'll dig up the review. I think it was on anandtech.
I have an active / decent backup software , so it does not really matter if one of the drives fail....actually you need to have the same backup strategy if you have 1 HDD.
so no, I don't hate my data...
ps: I don't care about benchmarks...I decided to stay with the current config after trying 1 velociraptor....btw I'm planning to use my 2 blacks in a mirror too if the SSD prices go down...(evil grin)
VR 600gb v Vertex 2E
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/152?vs=182
Sorry for double post - this link should work.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Produ...81.82.83.85.86
I did not find the original review, though this is a good read:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3636/w...gb-and-600gb/8
and this thread has a single 74GB raptor benchmarked, (comment on 11-21-2009, 01:07 PM):
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1284410&page=16
I believe it is clearly visible that these old drives are so slow in terms of performance that they're not even worth to mention...
edit: aidanjt, I see you have 2 of them...sorry, I did not mean to hurt your feelings...though I think it's not a good thing to be so bound with a piece of hardware...almost all of them become obsolete in months...
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Apart from the cost, the noise uncertainty always put me off. Especially being in a thin aluminium case on the desk.
I was considering this bay adapter as per SPCR review as available on Chillblast, as ebuyer sell the WD3000BLFS that should exclude the icepack. But would need a sealed unit really to get around that noise.
As for people saying the Velociraptors are slow. I always understood it was access time you are paying for instead of raw transfer speed that results in snappier actions.
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