SATAII Raptor?

[lbeachmike]

Does anybody know if Western Digital is planning to release a SATA2 version of their Raptor drive?

Thanks.

Mike

[AllGamer]

no clue but the current Raptors works just fine in SATA2

[Midknyte]

I'm sure the next incarnation of the Raptor will be SATAII. It will possibly be 16MB cache also.

It really doesn't matter because the interface is not the limiting factor. The Raptor can only do a sustained transfer of 60-70MBps tops.

[causticVapor]

I keep thinking that the final 10-15K RPM moveup will signal the death knell of rotating media. Hard drives will reach terabyte sizes, have 64MB+ cache, and spin at 15K RPM.

Shortly thereafter, solid state media will sweep the marketplace en masse.

Our children will ask us what those spinning disks were (ok stop cV, stop...)

[lbeachmike]

I agree! If you look at the progress of hard drive technology, it has been extremely slow in comparison to other comparable technology. Whereas non-volatile memory technology continues to be explosive with plummeting prices and capacities that have more than doubled in a year's time. Hard drive evolution is comparatively very slow, not particularly innovative and continues to be highly flawed.

[bushmaster]

Yeah right now you can get a 2 gig IDE solid state drive for only $545 :t

[lbeachmike]

Details?

[bushmaster]

was sarcasm. Samsung is putting out solid state drives for laptops with the idea of conserving power used during spin up of conventional drives. I've seen some IDE SS drives out there, but with low storage space for the $$. All in all not a viable alternative just yet.

[lbeachmike]

not yet, but i see this becoming practical in the not-so-distant future.