Comments on: Western Digital VelociRaptor SATA Hard Drive Touted as World’s Fastest SATA HDD [WD3000GLFS] http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/04/21/western-digital-velociraptor-sata-hard-drive-touted-as-worlds-fastest-sata-hdd-wd3000glfs/ TFTS - the very latest in technology news, new gadgets and gizmos. From HDTVs to netbooks, cell phones, DSLR cameras, PMPs, DAPs. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:22:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Western Digital Now Shipping WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor 300GB SATA HDD [WD’s ‘World’s Fastest SATA HDD’ Now Available] » Thoughts from the Sidelines - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/04/21/western-digital-velociraptor-sata-hard-drive-touted-as-worlds-fastest-sata-hdd-wd3000glfs/comment-page-1/#comment-27345 Western Digital Now Shipping WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor 300GB SATA HDD [WD’s ‘World’s Fastest SATA HDD’ Now Available] » Thoughts from the Sidelines - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities Sat, 31 May 2008 15:14:37 +0000 http://nexus404.com/Blog/?p=4741#comment-27345 [...] Digital have announced that they have now become shipping their new WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor 3.5” 10,000 RPM 300GB 3Gb/s SATA hard disk drive, claimed to be the world’s fastest SATA drive [...] [...] Digital have announced that they have now become shipping their new WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor 3.5” 10,000 RPM 300GB 3Gb/s SATA hard disk drive, claimed to be the world’s fastest SATA drive [...]

]]> By: turrican http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/04/21/western-digital-velociraptor-sata-hard-drive-touted-as-worlds-fastest-sata-hdd-wd3000glfs/comment-page-1/#comment-25791 turrican Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:43:34 +0000 http://nexus404.com/Blog/?p=4741#comment-25791 Most people know the advantages of SSD, I agree that they are better than HD's for a lot of scenarios, but this half-truth SSD bandwagon is pathetic. - Power consumption: Don't you have a car? Don't you use a 1000W heater in the winter? Don't you turn on the lights? - Where is the proof that consumer grade SSD's will have high quality, reliability, and support a large number of write cycles? Or is this based on claims from manufacturers? I don't want Maxtor style SSD's - HD's are known to have high failure rates, but SSD doesn't avoid the most common reasons why you lose important data: filesystem corruption, virus, human error like deleting files, application bugs, memory errors that corrupt system cache. - SSD is fantastic for random reads, but poor for writes. If I pay 1000$, I don't want a compromise, if I pay high end, I want high end. - SSD owns an HD badly at loading programs. Agree! But have you ever heard of SuperFetch? If you have Vista, a PC with SSD will boot 10 secs faster and that's it. - And I don't want to see MTron benchmarks and then pay through the nose for el crappo SSD. Most people know the advantages of SSD, I agree that they are better than HD’s for a lot of scenarios, but this half-truth SSD bandwagon is pathetic.

- Power consumption: Don’t you have a car? Don’t you use a 1000W heater in the winter? Don’t you turn on the lights?
- Where is the proof that consumer grade SSD’s will have high quality, reliability, and support a large number of write cycles? Or is this based on claims from manufacturers? I don’t want Maxtor style SSD’s
- HD’s are known to have high failure rates, but SSD doesn’t avoid the most common reasons why you lose important data: filesystem corruption, virus, human error like deleting files, application bugs, memory errors that corrupt system cache.
- SSD is fantastic for random reads, but poor for writes. If I pay 1000$, I don’t want a compromise, if I pay high end, I want high end.
- SSD owns an HD badly at loading programs. Agree! But have you ever heard of SuperFetch? If you have Vista, a PC with SSD will boot 10 secs faster and that’s it.
- And I don’t want to see MTron benchmarks and then pay through the nose for el crappo SSD.

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