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Ohhhh YUM!

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136555

Western Digital just released this a couple weeks ago... I have dual 300GB raptors in my desktop... this is just juicy!!

SATA 3/6GB/s
10000 RPM
600GB
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Rob, what's your take on these raptors compared to mainstream SATA2 7.2Krpm HDDs and how are they implemented? Raid 0 or 1 and installed onto which m/board?

Months ago, I bought a pair of used/tested-good VelociRaptor 80GB (WD800HLFS - OEM) and it's still on my shelf since I didn't have any m/board that supports SATA. Sure I could use one of those PCI>SATA adapters (VIA chipsets) to run software raid but I heard that throughput is limited by the adapter itself.

As an aside (your opinions appreciated as well), I understand that once an array of disks is created AND data mirrored over, eg. Raid 1 (HDD #1 > HDD #2), HDD #2 cannot be removed from the array or it becomes unreadable/un-accessible/Bios undetectable, even if connected to external USB enclosures. Is this so? If yes, how does one 'make good' the drive again? Thanks!

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Ron, it's crazy because AFAIK their was only 36GB, 73GB, 150GB, 300GB and now the new 600GB ones. I personally use 2 x 300GB ones and they are NOT RAIDED as I only had one when I built my desktop and didn't wanna reload everything.

The best scenario would be to have 4 of these drives in a RAID 5 format (You loose 25% of your available space this way). If you didn't wanna spend a $h1t load of money they just go with one drive... they're RIDICULOUSLY FAST!
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