10,000RPM gaming-oriented HDD now in South Africa

[James]

10,000RPM gaming-oriented HDD now in South Africa

Western Digital’s 1TB VelociRaptor hard drive hits hard at an RRP of R2,700

[HavocXphere]

meh. For that price rather get a SSD for gaming and a 1TB vanilla hdd for media storage.

[weakest_link]

and the SSD will degenerate to worst than a 5900rpm drive

[Pr⊕phet]

10,000RPM gaming-oriented HDD now in South Africa

Western Digital’s 1TB VelociRaptor hard drive hits hard at an RRP of R2,700

How much of a difference does this make, I mean for gaming ?

[Tsar]

How much of a difference does this make, I mean for gaming ?

I suppose it loads faster but to be honest I don't think in the end it makes much difference.

[okuhle94]

That Hard Drive is sweet, 10 000RPM speed for a 1TB HDD. Wish there was something similar for Laptops.

[Pada]

I don't see a point in this drive.

SSD > Veloci-raptor.

The SSD might not have as much space, but that is what you have low-power 2-3TB HDD's for.
So you just keep your current games that you play on your SSD and the installations, etc. on the other HDD's.

With TRIM and other garbage collection techniques, SSD's won't "gegenerate" fast either.

[murfle]

10,000RPM drives traditionally are more suited for file servers. I'm kind of surprised they're labelling it as a part of a gaming series.

I remember about over 10 years ago, I had an 18gb 15,000 RPM SCSI drive for my boot drive. Doesn't even come close to my SSD boot drive is capable of today. In fact, the 7,200RPM SATA II drives get about the same throughput the old SCSI drive was capable of. AFAIK, the speed of the drive only really comes in useful when there's lots of users trying to access data on it (but I could be wrong)

[sycogrim]

OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo that looks oooooorrrrrsome!!!

I do want

[TBlaar]

Back in the day, Tomshardware used to use a striped raid of Raptors in their test machines... were these drives re-launched or what?