Just got word from my good mate Stuart ?Veridian3? Davidson over at DriverHeaven that their Western Digital Raptor Serial ATA 10000RPM Hard Drive Review is out!
SATA - the SCSI for mainstream. Its been hyped so much since its release that everyone was expecting it to be of comparable performance, unfortunately this hasn?t been the case with SATA drives having no performance increases over their PATA counterparts. Granted installation is easier and overall efficiency is slightly higher, but hardcore users don?t really care about that, "its all about the speed". It has been said in the coming years when the technology matures we can be looking forward to data transfer rates of 300mb/s-600mb/s. If this happens then there is a clear winner, but in the meantime Western digital have released several 10,000RPM sata drives, a 74gb version and a 36.7gb version, we will be looking at the latter today
SATA - the SCSI for mainstream. Its been hyped so much since its release that everyone was expecting it to be of comparable performance, unfortunately this hasn?t been the case with SATA drives having no performance increases over their PATA counterparts. Granted installation is easier and overall efficiency is slightly higher, but hardcore users don?t really care about that, "its all about the speed". It has been said in the coming years when the technology matures we can be looking forward to data transfer rates of 300mb/s-600mb/s. If this happens then there is a clear winner, but in the meantime Western digital have released several 10,000RPM sata drives, a 74gb version and a 36.7gb version, we will be looking at the latter today
