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[Newegg.com] WD 300GB Velociraptor $179.99 w/ free shipping

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NoodleGTS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-322-_-Product

Saw this deal and almost bought a second one for RAID. Great price and free shipping to boot.
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Originally Posted by NoodleGTS View Post
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-322-_-Product

Saw this deal and almost bought a second one for RAID. Great price and free shipping to boot.
I think you made the right choice by holding off unless you do huge file transfers. These are still simply the fastest mechanical hard drives for a desktop, but you'd be better off buying a single SSD for gaming/general pc use. Again, disregard the above if you do a lot of file sharing/file transfers.
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Originally Posted by sccr64472 View Post
I think you made the right choice by holding off unless you do huge file transfers. These are still simply the fastest mechanical hard drives for a desktop, but you'd be better off buying a single SSD for gaming/general pc use. Again, disregard the above if you do a lot of file sharing/file transfers.
I don't do a lot of huge transfers so nothing to worry about. Once my case is finished I'm just going to set up my spare 250GB barracuda as a storage drive and be set.

I just thought I would post this for anyone who wants a fast boot drive but for whom SSDs are out of reach money wise. I've seen a huge improvement in load speeds over my old 7,200 rpm drives in RAID with just a single Velociraptor.
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valtopps
179.99 is the cheapest i ever seen it. 300gb at 10k rpm are one of the best hdd out there. thats all i used to build my own personal computers. loved them, now i just bought a little intel ssd. waiting for it to come in.
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xToaDx
I thought the Seagate 1.5TB drive was faster than these, if you made it a 300GB partition?
Here's a link no HDTune shots though, that I saw, so maybe he's just full of crap.
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tipsycoma
Meh, still you're better off getting an SSD and a cheap WD or Seagate for storage.
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valtopps
sure if you dont care about speed. but a ssd and a 300gb vr is king of speed.
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NoodleGTS
Guys SSDs are very expensive. If you want 300GB this is the fastest non SSD drive you can get, and it's a pretty awesome price.
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wow that is cheap
I love my velociraptor, these things are amazing.
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