WD VelociRaptor 10000rpm

[fasterbybike]

Does anybody have experience with WD VelociRaptor 10000rpm drives?

Especially interested in performance vs power consumption, noise and heat issues.

Thanks

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[Rushdie]

I've been running regular raptors (not the velociraptor version) and the main concern is seek noise. You would want to suspend it somehow to limit vibrations.

Raptors get hot. To avoid accelerated wear some sort of cooling is preferred. That could be either a slow rpm fan, heatsinks (as the velociraptor comes shipped with) or an combination. I'm running my current raptor suspended from strings to avoid vibrations, and I have heatsinks mounted on the sides. This keeps the temperature down to acceptable levels.

Speed, even for older versions, are still good. And old raptor would still beat a new 7200rpm high density platter disk.

[fasterbybike]

Thanks for the answer

but (and wondering why this thread was moved ) I'm asking about laptop drives, not desktop drives.

See this link and this link

[wap32]

Those aren't laptop drives, they're enterprise-grade drives, but in a 2.5" format.

If you take a quick look a the specs you'll see that the power requirements alone are twice (more if idle) the ones of a regular drive (seek: 6W vs 2.5W, idle: 4W vs 0.5W), and they require a 12V line. Not to mention the noise, 22 vs 29dBA while idle, 25 vs 34dBA while seeking.

Even assuming the laptop has a 12V line in the sata connector (I guess it is possible, but no laptop drive I know uses it) and that the drive would work, it will most assuredly melt your thinkpad and drain the battery like crazy.

Still, you would probably get awesome performance and crazy-low boot times

Seriously though, if performance is what your looking for, you should be looking at ssd's, for a little more than price in your link I think you should find something at least close to 150GB and probably with pretty good speed (then again, I don't know how prices are in NZL).

[qviri]

The 2.5" Velociraptors are thicker than the standard 9.5 mm and won't fit in Thinkpads.