price per gb per watt hour = massive ripoff in operating expenses

they use 6.08watts each… 12.16 watts for 300GB of storage is not good

Hehehehe, blast from the past. I used to have two in RAID0 in my gaming rig back in the day. 🤘

no you can definitely say no

I could have said no. These are nothing more than ewaste today.

I used to have the 1TB velociraptors with the Icepack back in the days.

Just to be sure, these were discontinued, right?

Aren’t any modern HDDs faster? Even 5400 rpm HDDs because when capacity grows one rotation of the disk will contain more data.

I still have 5x of those in RAID5 that work fine.

i remember when i got my 1tb drive back in the day,i remember putting battlefield 4 on all 3 of my diff drives to test speeds. VelociRaptor/ssd/hdd.
my speed test was “how fast i got into server and loaded up and in game”
hdd i would join, there would be 12+ppl already in.
VelociRaptor normally around 5 ppl already in.
and at that year i think it was 2013 not to many ppl with ssd’s i would be 1st or 4th person in and would be able to take the attack heli every game lol.
good find that will be fun to mess with, spin one up and hold it move a little to feel the torque lol

Offtopic: I just bought a Lexar M.2 with 4TB for 189€, the price range is getting very good! They are advertised with 7GB read/write… let’s see what your Velociraptors can do :D

I use one for dedicated storage for a Hyper-V virtual machine. The whirring serves as notification that something has happened.

I have had a few without the icepacks for years now. They run so hot and I never built a system to deal with it. Please do a follow up comparing seek and read/write stats with modern fastbois.

I had a 150GB WD Raptor that died after two years. When I sent it to WD for a warranty replacement in 2011, I remember thinking “maybe they’ll send me back a Velociraptor…”

And they did! They sent me a 300GB Velociraptor. I was ecstatic.

I finally deprecated my VelociRaptor 160GB last week. Was using it as a Linux boot drive for experimenting, but was time to get a cheap SSD for same task. She served me well for over a decade.

DataHoarderNostalgia! I remember the reputation these had, and the cool name. Before SSDs, I was big into these.

More background:

https://louwrentius.com/an-ode-to-the-10000-rpm-western-digital-velociraptor.html

For consumers and enthusiast, the Raptor was an amazing boot drive. The 74 GB model was large enough to hold the operating system and applications. The bulk of the data would still be stored on a second hard drive either also connected through SATA or even still through PATA.