welcome to my unboxing of something that is Bucking the trend this is the WD
Velociraptor one tbte so you guys
remember the Raptor okay so the Raptor
first arrived on the scene in a capacity that honestly was unusable the 36 GB
it's like I mean that's that's like when ssds for showed up and you're kind of
looking at it going well okay so I could put my OS on it in like one game mind
you at the time you could put more games than one game cuz games were smaller but
now that games are like 17 gigs or more for certain games I mean my Dragon Age
Origins game is like 30 gigs or something like that so okay so okay
we've determined that the Raptor while it was fast and cool and relevant at the
time is now too small too slow and hasn't existed for a very long time now
the Velociraptor came along and rejuvenated the Raptor line the
Velociraptor was available in higher capacities it was faster and more
efficient and even then at the time it
was still not that relevant because ssds were getting higher in capacity they
were getting lower in price and they were so much faster that you're kind of
looking at it going well like oh that doesn't really make that much sense this looks like a game changer
this is the Velociraptor 1 tbte so we're a long way away from highperformance
ssds that are 1 tbte and come in at a reasonable price the Velociraptor 1 tbte
comes in at a very reasonable price remember magnetic storage is still many
times cheaper per Gigabyte compared to Solid State Storage what's the
application of this is it for a boot Drive personally I would say no I would
say still this has a very valid place in a high performance system whether it's a
workstation or even a gaming rig where you're using an SSD as your boot drive
and you're using a velociraptor one tbte or even you know a raid of multiple
Velociraptor 1 tabt in the context of
needing high performance storage that also needs a lot of capacity so if
you're using it as a scratch Drive working on very very large files if
you're using it to store your steam Library so maybe you've got Windows
installed on your SSD a couple key applications but you've got a huge steam
library of games that is always expanding well you can't keep that on an
SSD and honestly your storage system doesn't make that much of a difference
except maybe with game loading times when you're popping into the game in
terms of actually launching games and playing single player especially it
doesn't make that much of a difference although it's nice to have the little
boost um especially well like I said when you're loading games um
particularly for multiplayer so yeah
okay useful for gamers but most of the focus is on professionals professionals
need the capacity professionals need the speed but don't necessarily want to
compromise too much in either direction so that's where the Velociraptor 1 tab
comes in we're actually going to be doing full coverage of this on ncx Tech
tips so don't forget to subscribe to my ncixcom channel but I just wanted to
take a couple minutes open her up show you guys what a velociraptor one
terabyte looks like this is a 2 and a half inch thick drive so you can't just
take it off the included adapter and throw it in a notebook it most likely
won't fit it comes with a heat sink cuz this is a 10,000 RPM drive so that's
where it gets the additional performance it also gets additional performance from
its form factor the fact that it is a 2 1/2 in Drive compared to a 3 and 1/2 in
Drive means that the platters are much smaller smaller platters means that your
access times are much lower as well because the head physically doesn't have
to move as far in order to access the data that you need the faster spinning
platter also gives it additional sequential performance on both reads and
rights which is again another advantage of magnetic storage over Solid State
Storage if you're doing something very right intensive a velociraptor is
probably a better solution than an SSD just due to the fact that ssds do
eventually die I recently had an SSD die in my Windows home server actually uh
which is a very right intensive application I was using it as my boot
drive and it also throws it into the drive pool so for an application where
it's going to get beat up like crazy uh magnetic may still be the way to go so
there you go uh thank you for checking out oh right okay I should finished
showing you guys the heat sink so it's got like this beastly heat sink on it which looks amazing it's awesome cool
there you go uh it's also got an adapter right here so you're taking the smaller
SATA interface and you're kind of moving it a little to the left it's actually a
full siiz ATA interface you're moving it over here where you can easily plug it
into a 3 and 1/2 in Bay in your system okay and right so why the heat snc
because 10,000 RPM drives will run hotter unless you're cooling them so
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