Raptopr for laptop

I was on Tom's Hardware and came across this article that says WD is coming out with a 10k rpm 2.5in SATA HDD up to 300gb. It doesn't mention anything about laptops but I was wondering if anyone has heard anyhting about laptop applications for this drive?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html

 

It's been discussed before. Just because it's a 2.5" factor doesn't mean it's for laptops necesarily. A couple paragraphs down it mentions that today's workstations and servers are moving from 3.5" to 2.5", and that's exactly what these are meant for.

So no, this drive will not work on a laptop. It's for servers.

 

This article talks about this superfast HDD, and laptop use http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_new_fastest_hard_drive_ever

 

Despite the 2.5 inch form factor, it's too tall for most laptop applications. I think the average notebook HDD is 8.5mm tall; the new Raptor is 15mm tall. If your laptop magically supports a 15mm tall drive, I don't see why it wouldn't work, though. But then you gotta consider the heat and all as well...

 

I was thinking the same thing, in the link I provided WD says power requirements wont work with a notebook, true or not?

 

The thing is, power requirements on standard laptop drives already vary quite a bit between 4200rpm drives and 7200rpm drives. And you don't see people worrying about power consumption when upgrading from a 4200rpm drive to a 7200rpm drive (though I doubt that happens too often). Based on the same logic, I don't see how another 2000rpm would make great enough of a difference to make a 10000rpm drive flat out incompatible.

I mean, there are some efficient 7200rpm drives that eat less power than some inefficient 5400rpm drives, so I'd assume that an efficient 10000rpm drive could eat less power than a less efficient 7200rpm drive. Or something like that. Ultimately I don't think it should be a huge concern, but WD probably knows something we don't.

 

The heat would increase a lot, under max load the hdd would go over 60C . And for hdd , that is a bit to high.

 

Yeah, it could be hot seeing the massive "heatsink" connected to it but it does make you wounder if you could detach it and plop it in your notebook.

 

I read one of the reviews that've popped up and you can definitely detach it. It's screwed on at the bottom I think.

 

I'am sure someone will try it!

 

the 300gb raptor is reaching high 30 C with the bloody 3.5" heatsink...

without the heatsink in, basically free air/space, the drive reachs
over 40 C... and thats only for an hour or two during testings...

put that thing in, say a 13~14 inch laptop and you'll definetly make
yourself sterile

 

The harddrive will be able to work in any laptop which has sata and can fit 12mm thick harddrives.
If you look at the sticker the drive uses slightly less power than the Hitachi 7K100 series, so the drives will be able to be powered by the onboard sata port.

Hopefully if these drives are available soon, I will purchase two of them for my Voodoo, and throw them in a raid 0 array.
I have active harddrive cooling, so cooling should not be a problem.
I have made my own harddrive caddy, so that the 9mm 7k200 drives are further apart, for more airflow between the drives. I will simply make a new harddrive caddy, and slap in two of these 10k drives, and BAM I will have a even faster laptop.
As for the cooling goes, I think the drive will heat up pretty high in a laptop which does not have active cooling.

K-TRON

 

Laptop drives use only the 5V rail. The new raptor uses 5V and 12V rails. It will consume a lot more power than a typical laptop drive and be much noisier/hotter.

 

Hmm, if they release a single platter version, it would fit, at least the laptops that can take 12 mm HDD's. Not sure if it would fit where only standard 9mm laptop HDD's fit.