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LAN Party Forums => The Swap Meet => Started by: Mr.Tibbs on January 02, 2011, 08:52:03 PM

Title: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on January 02, 2011, 08:52:03 PM: What I have up for grabs is the above. Looking for a mere $100. Have the original box and all packaging. Drive is in the static bag and have the SATA Cable.

Any questions just reply. I will get the serial # and DOM (Date of Manufacture), at a later date.

EDIT:

DOM= Aug 29 2009
S/N#: WXL39010999
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 03, 2011, 07:08:43 AM: A mere $100? Ummm.... hmmmm. It'll be a few weeks until I have enough funding for anything significant due to just starting this job. How about some pancakes? I have a full box of pancake mix and I can make a meeean breakfast!
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: sully! on January 04, 2011, 08:11:18 AM: Quote from: vincegun on January 03, 2011, 07:08:43 AM
How about some pancakes? I have a full box of pancake mix and I can make a meeean breakfast!
Only if you cuddle with him afterwards.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 04, 2011, 12:28:15 PM: To save $100? These are hard times, my friend, and we must do what we can to save a buck. There's a war on, you know.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: The Shoctor on January 04, 2011, 03:01:53 PM: We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Chocolate rations have been increased 10%
Have some Victory Gin with me!
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on January 04, 2011, 06:00:41 PM: Updated original post. FYI WD has a 5 year warranty on Raptor drives. So if it breaks before Aug 29 2014. You can send it back for a replacement. Now I don't have the original receipt when I bought it off the previous owner. If I did it would go by the date on the receipt when it was purchased.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: tipperzack on January 04, 2011, 11:30:22 PM: I have two of these drives.
Can raiding three together gain any extra speed?
If so I'll buy from you.
Plus why are you selling?
Zack
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Petch on January 05, 2011, 07:48:48 AM: Quote from: tipperzack on January 04, 2011, 11:30:22 PM
I have two of these drives.
Can raiding three together gain any extra speed?
If so I'll buy from you.
Plus why are you selling?
Zack

In theory adding an extra drive should increase the performance (if you are talking about a RAID 0 array). Keep in mind that you are also increasing your risk of losing the entire array with each drive you add, due to there being no redundancy.

Zx is the storage guru, so if Im wrong Im sure he'll correct me.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: sully! on January 05, 2011, 08:50:59 AM: What you all talking about? Don't you know that adding another drive doubles your throughput each time!? So Two drives are twice as fast as one, three drives are 4 times as fast as 1, and (zoinks!) 5 drives would be 16 times as fast!!! I'll take eleventy-teen in my system, please!

The above is purely sarcasm. If you took anything I said as truth, you should be punched in the jeans.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: The Shoctor on January 05, 2011, 08:54:42 AM: I'm not wearing jeans.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Petch on January 05, 2011, 08:55:43 AM: Quote from: The Shoctor on January 05, 2011, 08:54:42 AM
I'm not wearing jeans.

Pants off Dance off Wednesday at work?
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: The Shoctor on January 05, 2011, 09:31:18 AM: I wish... Don't work at home anymore.

_{I'm in your thread going off topic!}
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: zx2slow on January 05, 2011, 11:09:07 AM: Petch is correct(ish). Adding additional spindle drives to RAID0 has three effects:

1) Increases throughput, this does not scale linearly. Three drives capable of 100MB/sec read and write will not give 300MB/sec read and write. A better controller will help here.

2) Increases access times, you now have another disk head that needs to get into position to get your data. If these disks were SSD's you can ignore this point as their seek times are close to zero anyway, 30 x almost nothing is still almost nothing.

3) Increases failure rate, you now have an additional device that can fail in a system where a single failure completely bones you.

What this means for desktop performance? Two spindle drives IMHO is the sweet spot for desktop RAID0 performance, you have the throughput, but you are starting to increase seek times and random IO, this will decrease the snappy performance of your system.

You may want to look at your controller, if you are using the onboard RAID controller there are throughput limitations, I am rocking a ICH10R and I am limited to ~600MB/s, adding an additional drive to my RAID0 would be pointless. Those Raptors are pretty fast and its likely that you are going to be hitting a point of diminishing returns pretty quick.

Who wears pants to work anyways?
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 15, 2011, 08:02:11 PM: Should be getting my refund kinda soon. That drive still up for grabs?
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on January 16, 2011, 09:41:54 AM: Quote from: vincegun on January 15, 2011, 08:02:11 PM
Should be getting my refund kinda soon. That drive still up for grabs?

Yep.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 16, 2011, 01:47:27 PM: Sweet, I'll keep ya posted.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 28, 2011, 01:17:16 PM: Hey, I'll totally buy it from you. Can you bring it to the lan?
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on January 28, 2011, 04:35:43 PM: Quote from: vincegun on January 28, 2011, 01:17:16 PM
Hey, I'll totally buy it from you. Can you bring it to the lan?

Yeah I could do that.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 28, 2011, 04:47:05 PM: PRETTY PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE???????
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on January 28, 2011, 06:14:19 PM: Just be sure to have my money. It will be there.
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on January 28, 2011, 06:44:07 PM: Or else I face the wrath of the Tibbs?
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on January 28, 2011, 08:22:30 PM: Quote from: vincegun on January 28, 2011, 06:44:07 PM
Or else I face the wrath of the Tibbs?

I'll smother you with my Afro!
Title: Re: 300GB Western Digital Raptor
Post by: vincegun on February 04, 2011, 07:46:08 AM: I'd actually be rather entertained if I didn't have the money and you pulled something like this.

Stewie Beats Up Brian Part 1 and 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxjkCBU2ENc#)