BF2S Forums Western Digital VelociRaptors 300GB are now out (In the US, atleast)

Still too expensive for me, but nice.

Since this is 2.5", could it go in a laptop
Also, looking at reviews for the old Raptor and this wins by far.


    Pros: This silk bag is simply amazing. It's so soft. It also comes with a free hard drive in it that's pretty good too. But the bag, man, you gotta get one.
    Cons: Silk bag has no cons.
    Other Thoughts: Silk bag.

Last edited by Stimey (2008-05-27 14:39:26)

Stimey wrote:

Since this is 2.5", could it go in a laptop
Also, looking at reviews for the old Raptor and this wins by far.


    Pros: This silk bag is simply amazing. It's so soft. It also comes with a free hard drive in it that's pretty good too. But the bag, man, you gotta get one.
    Cons: Silk bag has no cons.
    Other Thoughts: Silk bag.

Rofl, that's the Raptor X, right? I remember the silk bag it came in...certainly felt a lot better than the shitty plastic my Caviar came in.

They were out in Europe for some time now but 300€ is too much.

wantacookie wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

Useless tbh.

There are cheaper drives that are faster. At 300$, it's still only 16mb cache? lawl.

Raptors were good like 3 years ago.

I'm hard drive shopping for a new rig. I have a Raptor in my current rig that I will be keeping intact.

So, I would love to know... which drives are faster for cheaper?

Pretty much any good brand large(ish) drive.  Am not so well versed in hard drives, but from my understanding you are better having a large hard drive with proportionatly little on it (say less than 30%), than a raptor that is say 60% full.

Martyn