WD Velociraptor

Don't know if it's been posted before (search seems never to work for me) but i wonder when someone is gonna rip off the heatsink and shove this into a notebook. The height is slightly thicker than most standard 2.5" drives and i wonder if thermal issues will arise without the heatsink and in such cramped quarters. Funny how 2.5" drives have been always losing the race for speed and now the king of the hill is a 2.5"er.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459

Funny how they include the "Not compatible with notebook computers"...like that's ever stopped anyone from trying =)

 

It is 15mm thick, way too tall for any notebook. Even if someone managed to retrofit it, the power requirements would be questionable..........

Linky to other thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=242937

 

4.5W idle power! No wonder it needs a big heat sink. It also needs a 12V power supply.

There's more discussion about this HDD in this thread.

John

 

hi, new poster here. i just got thru moding my 900k and i installed a vraptor in it. the portablility is gone but anyone who owns one never runs off battery for more than a few minutes.

 

Any pics or hdtune results? Would be interested to see. Hows it not overheating?

 

mick, you mention you have a 900t and a d900k in two different threads. I know for a fact the drive will not boot in the D900T or D900K because of the lack of a 12V line powerful enough to turn the drive on.

K-TRON

 

revived, im thinking of seeing if I can shove 2 of these in my w90 in raid 0

im pretty sure my battery is 12v I will test it, if thats the case I am going to wire the 12v directly from the battery with a "off" switch so they are only drawing power when I turn the swtich on.

I am not too worried about heat, just the size is a factor.

It will probably be easiest and best for me to just find some kind of sata extension cables that I can connect to the laptop headers and then splice into them for power.

This way i can completely cut off the 12v connection to the laptop motherboard incase of some kind of problem and wire it to the battery.

 

Is it worth it though? VR is about $220, X25-M is $320. $100 more for faster speeds, no noise (VR is loud for laptop), no cooling issues, better battery life, and no modding. Though you lose out on space 80GB vs 300GB.

 

Exactly, and just one raw video file would eat the entire intel SSD

 

The 80GB Intel is about the price of the 120GB OCZ, if you need 50% more space. If you need even more (and have dual HD support but same budget, go 60GB OCZ + 500GB Hitachi).

 

Still not a good solution,

Then you have this great fast drive but it would hold little more than your OS and a couple of games. If I have a high performance part I want it to do its job for everything, wich means all my games and any file other than media needs to be on there, and I need space for photoshop & video editing.

the laptop HDD is a bottleneck for video editing with these fast cpu's.

I dont have a good analogy really to compare the situation too, but you should understand what I am saying. I would rather have a slightly slower larger volume of storage than just a single very small storage amount that is even faster.

If you then factor in prices, then there is not longer even a comparison as the SSD simply prices itself out of any logical comparison for me.

 

The strength of the SSD lies in its low latency. Programs and the OS take the most advantage of that. Creating a working directory on the SSD and storing the remaining files on the HDD is not ideal, but optimal for a budget of around $300-350. If that price is more than you are willing, then consider waiting as there isn't a better solution atm.