Guess what I bought

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:59 pm

Guess I bought last Friday and got in today!

Yes, it comes just like pictured above in the pretty black bag.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:10 pm

Raptor X drive

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:14 pm

Damn Yves at least let me have a little fun! Yeah I bought one for my personal system!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:25 pm

well you made it too easy posting in storage. And as of right now the only drive that would create any interest would be the Raptor and is also the only one that would come in a nice little bagie

Just so you know the two i have are awsome. Fast as hell and queiter than my 300GB Maxtor DM10.

These things top out at 96mb sustained and drop as low as 64mb sustained which is just awsome IMO.

pointreyes · Post by **pointreyes** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:06 pm

infinitevalence wrote: These things top out at 96mb sustained and drop as low as 64mb sustained which is just awsome IMO.

Just send 8 of those drives my way and I will beat that sustained rate.

133Mhz PCI-X RAIDCore 8-port on my dual Xeon with slot to match the controller. Imagine 8 of those drives on my controller in RAID 0. Here's what I get with my boring 4-disk Seagate 7200.7 drives in RAID 5.
http://members.dsl-only.net/~pointreyes/ga/RC4852.jpg

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:23 pm

I can get them for a bit under $270 right now, still trying to get a SAS raid card in to test the RAID throughput of these drives

pointreyes · Post by **pointreyes** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:38 pm

Like this one?
http://www.lsilogic.com/files/docs/mark ... 068_pb.pdf

You know it would be very easy to test 4-disk RAID 0 with my setup, my 4-disk array is hot-swappable. I would be willing to test just 4 of those drives for you for at least a year for a "detailed" test.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:24 pm

Apoptosis wrote:Guess I bought last Friday and got in today!

Yes, it comes just like pictured above in the pretty black bag.

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ENVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I really want one!!!!!!!! SOOOO BAD!!!!! put that up on mext months contest where only users with D as thier starting letter in the name can enter.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:36 pm

I wanted the LSI but no one has them and i cant order direct from LSI, last email i got from them said release is being delayed due to a firmware revision.

So were going with the PCIe Adaptec 8port SAS.

wuzy · Post by **wuzy** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:25 pm

I really would like to get this card for my next rig, but have no idea how many legs&arms it'll cost me...

I suppose I can still extract some money from my Compaq SA532 and the two 18GB Cheetah X15 that's on it.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:31 pm

$750 through our distibuter but like i said you cant get it yet. I had my order in the system now for 3 months and still cant get one.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:51 am

I got this drive in operation last night and started running benchmarks... damn this thing is sweet and during Burst tests the drive goes crazy. It's awesome having the window!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:58 am

here is a teaser for the review that will be coming in a couple weeks.

I will have full testing with PCMark05, HD Tune, and other benchmarks soon.

Legit Reviews

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