•   Notifications
  • Welcome to our forums

    Join us now to get access to all our awesome features. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to create topics, post replies, give reputation to your fellow members, get your own private messenger, and so, so much more.

    + Reply to Thread + Post New Thread
    Results 1 to 6 of 6

    Thread: Western Digital Raptor WD360GD Serial ATA Hard Drive Review
  • Share This Thread!
    • Share on Facebook
    1. #1
      Join Date
      Apr 2002
      Location
      Omnipresent
      Posts
      2,989

      Western Digital Raptor WD360GD Serial ATA Hard Drive Review


    2. #2
      Join Date
      Apr 2002
      Location
      Omnipresent
      Posts
      2,989
      I would love to have 2 of these in a raid setup.

    3. #3
      Join Date
      Apr 2002
      Location
      uk
      Posts
      4,393
      The bizarre thing, if you look at the review - one of the chips is a parallel ATA to SATA converter.

      As they say, looks like it was originally designed as conventional ULTRA drive - it could probably have been better still if designed as SATA from the start.

      And another point - never mind the capacity, feel the speed - these days, a 36Gb drive seems embarrassingly SMALL
      ¡uʍop ǝpısdn ɹoʇıuoɯ ʎɯ pǝuɹnʇ oɥʍ ¡ʎǝɥ

    4. #4
      Join Date
      Apr 2002
      Location
      Omnipresent
      Posts
      2,989
      When I had a 10gig HD I stayed more on top of things and made more backups. Now that I have 2 40's in a raid setup I got lazy because of all the extra room. So it all depends on the person I guess.

    5. #5
      Join Date
      Apr 2002
      Location
      uk
      Posts
      4,393
      I know!

      My first HD was a 340Mb - and it was enough - for Win3.1, and when a lot of coverCd stuff actually ran from CD (at that time, a 2x model)
      My second, a 3.8Gb that cost several times what my current 20Gb did.

      with the 360 in the name of that drive, my first thought was "Wow! they've got up to 360Gb - what on earth would you fill that with"

      Progress! Software expands to fit the space and CPU power available, whilke really not doing much more that you use - I'd say I preferred some of the older software to its current version
      ¡uʍop ǝpısdn ɹoʇıuoɯ ʎɯ pǝuɹnʇ oɥʍ ¡ʎǝɥ

    6. #6
      Join Date
      Apr 2002
      Location
      Omnipresent
      Posts
      2,989
      Software was more compact then because it had to be. Now with all the HD space and gigs of ram, software has gotten bloated but, not better. There's always an update,patch, or fix having to be added.


    Posting Permissions

    • You may not post new threads
    • You may not post replies
    • You may not post attachments
    • You may not edit your posts
    Powered by vBulletin™ Version 4.0.3 Copyright © 2012 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights