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When will the raptor capacity increase?

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aneima6

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Anyone here anything about when the raptor might hold more than 74gb?
 
the raptor is just a scsi drive with different main board....

so making it and making a scsi drive cost the same (within a few $)

the scsi market is very very very lucrative
the sata raptor is somewhat lucrative but not nearly as much

untill it gets some competition its unlikly there will be new models
 
I personally think there would be a market for 147gb raptors.... but WD doesn't make SCSI drives anymore, so it's not just a matter of slapping on a new controller board to an existing product lineup. The raptors are truely innovative, well at least for WD. My question is, why don't Seagate, Hitachi, or even Maxtor slap a SATA board on some of their high-performace SCSI drives. SATA 15K.3s, SATA Atlas 15K IIs, anyone? I'd ditch SCSI in a heartbeat if there was something that could keep up with my 15,000 RPM drives in SATA flavor
 
Vertigo Acid said:
I personally think there would be a market for 147gb raptors.... but WD doesn't make SCSI drives anymore, so it's not just a matter of slapping on a new controller board to an existing product lineup. The raptors are truely innovative, well at least for WD. My question is, why don't Seagate, Hitachi, or even Maxtor slap a SATA board on some of their high-performace SCSI drives. SATA 15K.3s, SATA Atlas 15K IIs, anyone? I'd ditch SCSI in a heartbeat if there was something that could keep up with my 15,000 RPM drives in SATA flavor
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a scsi 10k 36gb sells for $130-165 new
a raptor sells for $105-110

profit margin on scsi is 2x or more than that of a sata
the cost of making them is the same
as a buisness rule.... do not ever undermine an existing lucrative product until some one else does it for you
hitachi, seagate and maxtor probobly already have the sata drives developed and ready for production
but they are not going to do it until:
A. the raptor starts eating away at their profits in the server or workstation market
B. one or both of the other 2 release it for some reason

right now in the minds of most large buisnesses
SCSI is a proven reliable format
SATA 10k is new and at this point yet to prove itself
for a large business buying 100 workstations or 2 large san arrays
the cost difference between SATA and SCSI is at most 10%
and its just not worth it to save a measly 10% to try something unknown
 
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