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1st February 2006, 04:21 AM
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| New Western Digital Raptors WD Raptors ... 150GB's 10,000rpm, 16mb cache, NCQ support. Insane transfer rates!!!  Clear Case Drive!! Drool Drool http://www.wdraptorx.com/photos/ |
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1st February 2006, 06:58 AM
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1st February 2006, 07:07 AM
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   | Man i just started thinking with the speeds attained by firewire and serial ata via external... whuts reeally the point of having our recording drives internal (i guess). |
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1st February 2006, 07:16 AM
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10,000 RPM is the point. Try recording/mixing a 65 track session on 7,200 RPM. Not gonna happen :) Man, that computer case with the drive looks killer.
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1st February 2006, 08:31 AM
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| The older/current Raptors are pretty smokin' drives... These should be awesome... --Ben |
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1st February 2006, 08:51 AM
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Yeah they are. I've got a SATA 10K 73GB inside my mac for working, and it's f'n awesome. SCSI can kiss MY ASS
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1st February 2006, 11:21 AM
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| just wondering though, whether the heat levels dcissipated by the raptors has been addressed by western digital at all. in a normal desktop system it's fine, you just whack another caase fan infront of them and it's all good, but in a system where you want as low a noise-floor as possible, like in a studio system, i'm wondering if it's still going to need extra cooling? |
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1st February 2006, 12:03 PM
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| could I just drop one of these into a dual G5 without needing anything else as extra? narco
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1st February 2006, 12:52 PM
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| I've got 2 of them inside a G5 initilize with disk utility -do what ever your gonna do to it Quote:
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1st February 2006, 01:23 PM
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| won't need anything new. still a standard SATA hdd when all's said and done  all be it a bloody fast one!! lol |
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1st February 2006, 01:27 PM
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1st February 2006, 08:33 PM
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| I use two 300/16meg SATA inside a G5. One for the system & such, the other for recording, never skips a beat! I was scared at first because I had never had a serious problem with SCSI for over 8 years (anyone need a dual/160 SCSI card cheap!). I also didn't trust my work to firewire. It's been a little more than a year now and I think and the SATA drive is holding up fine!
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1st February 2006, 08:53 PM
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1st February 2006, 09:21 PM
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Ditto - and a 96K as well. Paul Blenn p.s. But not often though! p.p.s I have, however, had no problems with the western Digital caviars 7200rpm 8meg doing this but I've had two raptor 35gb's die on me. Anyone else had any raptor problems? | |
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1st February 2006, 09:36 PM
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1st February 2006, 09:39 PM
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| Hmm....what am I doing wrong? 
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2nd February 2006, 02:15 AM
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That is a very good question. Is the maximum DMA enabled on your drives? You are recording to a drive that your os is not on right? What motherboard is it? I believe me and my buddy just played a session back that was close to 150 tracks. Disk usage was there but it played back fine. Continuous files as well. Are you editing alot? If you are you should either bounce the files once in a while or compact the audio. | |
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2nd February 2006, 02:27 AM
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| I don't know. I had problems with this at my old studio. OWC Elite external firewire drive hooked via 400 to a G4 "mirror door" running OSX with PT 6.4 HD3.... Always copied the tracks to the SCSI drives as working with songs with high track counts gave me problems. Either recording or mixing, with or without edits... I don't do this in my new room. Just copy everything to the internal SATA drive and work from that.
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2nd February 2006, 03:26 AM
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5th February 2006, 11:58 PM
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| Yeah... I have an older 36 GB Raptor and it SMOKES any drive I have in my G5!
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6th February 2006, 12:48 AM
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| the problem I am encountering with SATA 10K Raptors , is that It really heats up fast and needs cooling, so more fans is more noise, so running 3 of these with HD 5.25 coolers only works in a Isolated Box./ Or in the other room. Maybe the new cooling fins and new case carbon will help it. ... Iso Box a must ... .
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15th February 2006, 07:24 PM
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| I got a new Raptor today! I want another one now!! Amazing! speed! |
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15th February 2006, 11:22 PM
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| Please let us know how the 150 gig Raptors are working out. I have had great success with the 75gig Raptors, I'm looking forward to going with the new 150. I'm always shy about newly released products, though.
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16th February 2006, 12:46 AM
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|  I've had two 10K Raptors for over a year! Where's the SATA II, WD??? |
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16th February 2006, 01:46 PM
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| I guess disks won't get any sluttier than this.... 
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16th February 2006, 02:12 PM
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16th February 2006, 04:35 PM
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|  Just incase anybody was about to buy a WD 150gb Raptor ..They are incompatible with the SATA architecture in the G5. Cannot copy large chunks of data (around 20gigs and over) and zero all data formatting will hang the finder.This from the horses mouth at Western Digital support, who were suprisingly helpfull.. Heres what he told me.. Response (James W.) 02/07/2006 02:20 AM The drive is not compatible with the controller on a G5. The SATA controller on a G5 gives problems with our drives. We are working on a firmware update but we do not have one yet. I would take the drive back, I do not know when the fix for these issues will be released. It should not have been sold as G5 compatible. The problems that we have on a MAC are the drive will not format or you cannot copy large amounts to it. It may therefore work if you can get the O/S on it, but I would recommend returning it to the shop. |
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16th February 2006, 04:43 PM
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| couldnt it be used as a firewire drive? |
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16th February 2006, 05:53 PM
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Well how about the Noise ... are they better then the "older" cases...? seams that the thinner case will lead to less vibration absorption, thus making it nosier... For a place like mine that Is dead silent, it becomes annoying, so I put it all in the other room and just ran cables thru the wall !
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16th February 2006, 06:26 PM
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| Here's a nice review that puts the new Raptor up against a RAID setup.... http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/...formance_lead/
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