Aren’t any modern HDDs faster? Even 5400 rpm HDDs because when capacity grows one rotation of the disk will contain more data.
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?
fun memorabilia to put on display on the shelf!
no you can definitely say no
I use one for dedicated storage for a Hyper-V virtual machine. The whirring serves as notification that something has happened.
Not even worth the power to run them. I would pay to not have them.
Checked the drives in CDI and they’ve got less hours than my WD Blue 1TB that’s probably 5+ years old!
I have had a few without the icepacks for years now. They run so hot and I never built a system to deal with it. Please do a follow up comparing seek and read/write stats with modern fastbois.
One of those requires more power than two modern 22 TB drives, lol.
I finally deprecated my VelociRaptor 160GB last week. Was using it as a Linux boot drive for experimenting, but was time to get a cheap SSD for same task. She served me well for over a decade.
Hehehehe, blast from the past. I used to have two in RAID0 in my gaming rig back in the day. 🤘
Came here to say this. Think I had a 40gb.
only time I ever stroked and striped a pair outside of a data center. So much noise tho.
1337 mode: engaged but rusty
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.
Just to be sure, these were discontinued, right?
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
My video editing PC had two 500GB velociraptors in RAID-0.
Very fast at the time, though I’m sure it would feel sluggish compared to my current NVMe