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

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

fun memorabilia to put on display on the shelf!

no you can definitely say no

One of those requires more power than two modern 22 TB drives, lol.

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

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

Had 2x 10000rpm ones in raid in the day playing wow...

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.

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.

Just to be sure, these were discontinued, right?

My video editing PC had two 500GB velociraptors in RAID-0.

Very fast at the time, though I'm sure it would feel sluggish compared to my current NVMe

nice iv got the 1tb drive i think its in my pc not used tho lol

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

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

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

Not even worth the power to run them. I would pay to not have them.

Checked the drives in CDI and they’ve got less hours than my WD Blue 1TB that’s probably 5+ years old!

https://ibb.co/SrSztRk https://ibb.co/vHRtFWb

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.

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

Did you fuck someone out of that or did you fuck yourself?

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

I just shucked one of these and threw it in my R730 today haha!

What a blast from the past! I still have my 74GB floating around somewhere.

It feels like a missed opportunity to still not reuse the velociraptor name for high end ssd’s or something.

Hey don't forget the 150 gb model they made with the transparent window to see it working.