300GB VelociRaptor for $199 & FREE Shipping

Nice deal, I have had 2 for a while in raid 0 and its Awesome!!!
 
This addresses neither of the main points of the previous poster. This is not a great SSD, it's only 60GB and ever so barely under $200. How is 60GB of half assed SSD better than 300GB of awesome HDD?
 
Sentinel54 said:
This addresses neither of the main points of the previous poster. This is not a great SSD, it's only 60GB and ever so barely under $200. How is 60GB of half assed SSD better than 300GB of awesome HDD?
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Because 60 or even 40 is enough for an OS install and helps the whole system feel snappier. Meanwhile it doesn't do much for games or other bulk storage things so you put them on a cheap 1tb drive. Hence a little bit of really fast drive > a medium amount of moderately fast drive.
 
Jakalwarrior said:
Because 60 or even 40 is enough for an OS install and helps the whole system feel snappier. Meanwhile it doesn't do much for games or other bulk storage things so you put them on a cheap 1tb drive. Hence a little bit of really fast drive > a medium amount of moderately fast drive.
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I feel that games benefit greatly from being on a fast OS drive. Of course I'm not putting downloads, photos, music on my OS drive but games are easily a 10GB install situation these days and it adds up fast.
 
Not a bad deal for the HLFS drives, but the only thing these drives have over the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3's is more IO read/write and a much faster access time. I was looking into getting one of these to store my files on, and because I already have 2x80GB X25-m G2's RAID 0($455 = what I paid) for an OS drive.. after that kind of upgrade.. I cannot find any logic that tells me to buy one of these for a data drive, when the 1TB F3 is about $85.

Still, not a bad drive for an OS drive. If I was doing a single HDD mechanical drive for an OS drive, it would be this for sure.
 
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I'd say she's a good deal. SSD's are a bit more pricey, I'm going to try and hold for a nice ssd, but using one of these for games wouldn't be bad....
 
has anyone taken one of these and put them into a HS 2.5" 4-in-1 or 8-in-1 sas enclosure? Keep in mind that SAS enclosures are designed for taller drives (taller than regular laptop 2.5"), and up to 15k disks.
 
Sentinel54 said:
I feel that games benefit greatly from being on a fast OS drive. Of course I'm not putting downloads, photos, music on my OS drive but games are easily a 10GB install situation these days and it adds up fast.
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You don't think the whole 10 gig gets loaded when you open the game, right? e.g. this drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...lickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16822152181

is a good, fast option that is VERY cheap for bulk games storage, etc.


(long live SSD os drives. I'll never go back)
 
WOW...i started this thread last night, saw all these replies, and was saying to myself "i'm glad others got a good deal too"

LOL.... but thats not the case. :rolleyes: ;)
 
Used to be 600$ for 600gigs so it's better.

And if yer 4 in 1 case has good airflow there shouldn't be a problem putting it in there, my understanding was it was in there so A noobs could install and B to give it some extra cooling.
 
Ya not really a hot deal, its been at $200 for this drive for the past 5 months or so.... Newegg has always had the cheapest price on it I believe.
 
nobody gives 2 shits about VR's it is what it is an extinct dinosaur. Enthusiast buy SSD and the rest think is a waste of money.
 
Retsam said:
Ya not really a hot deal, its been at $200 for this drive for the past 5 months or so.... Newegg has always had the cheapest price on it I believe.
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Not hot, I agree..

Thought that counts so thanx for trying! ;)
 
I still say getting a 60gb Agility SSD (Which is NOT "half-assed" as one ignoramus claims) and, say, a WD Caviar Black 640gb (which IMO completely destroys Raptors in price/perf) will be cheaper, perform better, use less power, create less heat, and be much quieter than 2x 300gb raptors. I see little reason to get these 300gb drives at this price point, and I feel that this is a very cold deal.
 
Fafeifa said:
nobody gives 2 shits about VR's it is what it is an extinct dinosaur. Enthusiast buy SSD and the rest think is a waste of money.
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Agreed. Raptors were always overpriced for what they were actually capable of. I'm glad SSDs finally made them obsolete.
 
Here is the much better and cheaper option that I suggested:

60gb Agility $160
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010538&prodlist=celebros

640gb Caviar Black $63
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010082&prodlist=celebros

Total: $223 for ~700gb - faster, quieter, more space, much cheaper, etc. than $400 for 600gb of Raptors. Also, you could get 2x Caviar Blacks in RAID 0 (which beats a single Raptor by a large margin), then you'd end up with over 1.2tb of storage plus an SSD for $286. There's no contest here.
 
I used a crappy SSD before and my Velociraptor is much faster for write operations. Now good SSDs are getting cheaper so there are more alternatives available. I won't buy anything lower than 120GB for my boot drive so for now, I'm sticking with my Velociraptor. I will jump on the SSD bandwagon as soon as >120GB drives are cheaper.
 
I find that 120GB is the minimum size I could live with.
My new Intel 160GB G2 is considerably faster than my Velociraptor. Launching applications is now almost instantaneous.

But $200 for a VR remains a damn good price.
 
Very tempting but I still feel like it's more worth it to wait for SSDs to get cheaper. My 150 gig Raptor has been going strong for 3 years now.
 
Well everyone has their own opinion. I dont quite understand how you can say Vraptors are overpriced when SSD's are even way more overpriced...

I personally picked up a Vraptor for $100 and its pretty damn fast. I cant say I really need anything faster atm..... SSD's are clearly the future and everything else will eventually be obsolete, but at this point in time, I felt SSD's are still overpriced and need to mature before I will buy one.........

Give SSD's a good year or so, and thats probably when I plan to pick one up.
 
I guess that people just realised what a fast HDD can do to their system. I bet most people who already knew about it long time ago had a Raptor or Velociraptor in the system before this and now are already using an Intel SSD, not just some small capacity cheap SSDs.
 
Psh, well if SSDs are so overpriced, why not just get a hardware raid controller and 4 Caviar Blacks in raid 0 or raid 5? Think about it, for $400 you can get this:

Controller $100:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115050

And FOUR WD Caviar Blacks ($300), that's 2.4Tb of storage in raid 0, and 1.8tb in raid 5, and it will get better performance than two Raptors running onboard raid 0. Not to mention data security if you run raid 5. No matter which way you construe it, your money is better spent elsewhere.
 
ordovician said:
Psh, well if SSDs are so overpriced, why not just get a hardware raid controller and 4 Caviar Blacks in raid 0 or raid 5? Think about it, for $400 you can get this:

Controller $100:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115050

And FOUR WD Caviar Blacks ($300), that's 2.4Tb of storage in raid 0, and 1.8tb in raid 5, and it will get better performance than two Raptors running onboard raid 0. Not to mention data security if you run raid 5. No matter which way you construe it, your money is better spent elsewhere.
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First of all RAID 5 is worthless as far as security Drive 6 or 10 are much better choices.

Second that controller is not any better than your on board one, i'd rather stay with on board.

I will never pay money for a controller without Mini SAS ports otherwise you are throwing away money as most of us have unused sata ports now why pay $100 for something you already have and also taking a pci slot.
 
Fafeifa said:
First of all RAID 5 is worthless as far as security Drive 6 or 10 are much better choices.

Second that controller is not any better than your on board one, i'd rather stay with on board.

I will never pay money for a controller without Mini SAS ports otherwise you are throwing away money as most of us have unused sata ports now why pay $100 for something you already have and also taking a pci slot.
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The exact card isn't the point at all-- my whole point is that you can get much more for $400 than 2 raptors. So you buy a $230 card and 4-5 single-platter 320-500gb drives, its still faster than the raptor.
 
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