Check this out:

The new line of WD’s HDDs will offer 8MB buffer, Serial ATA-150 interface and the glamour 10 000rpm fluid dynamic bearing motors! According to this Japanese web-site, WD plans to offer 5 year limited warranty on the HDD with MTBF of 1.2 million hours.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1044471776

:eek: Now thats fast. Its beginning to look like instead of using scsi cards we will be able to just use the normal eide connection. Keeping that in mind prices are going to drop like flies on scsi HDDs you know. I bet the price of that HDD is going to be about $300-$400 when it comes out.

Wow, some questions spring to mind, access time and noise and does'nt the MTBF equate to 136 years or is my brain dead. It does'nt mention what capacity they will be released in either and seeing we are at 200gb will they be bigger???

WD already have 8mb buffers on their Caviar SE range with the 120gb going for £103 at ebuyer ( $169us) but these are 7200rpm with a rated 8.9ms access god knows what these 10000rpm drives will fly at.....?

ps2wiz01, always first with the breaking news stories...:D

Smiffy

Smiffy, or course the drives will get bigger. They already have 250gig drives out and 300gigs are scheduled to be released before the end of the year.

Originally posted by QWERTY
Smiffy, or course the drives will get bigger. They already have 250gig drives out and 300gigs are scheduled to be released before the end of the year.

Jeez,last time I looked 200gb was the biggest drive when did the 250gb come out...?

Smiffy

The HD's use fluid dynamic bearing motors.... so they should be quiet.

Smiffy280361: yep. thanks m8,:tup:
Also have a look here, for fun
http://www.westerndigital.com/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=1450
80 GB Per Plater that Yields 250 GB Hard Drivers

Originally posted by Smiffy280361
does'nt the MTBF equate to 136 years or is my brain dead.

Not unless mine is dead too!! 136.9 something was what i got.

Yup, that what I calculated too.

WD are the the best at the mo, it will be hard for every one elses to catch up!!!!!!!!!!

Check ths out, WD just posted all the specs on their website:

The HD's are gonna be called "WD Raptor", its a 36.7 GB HD, it also has 5.2 ms (average) seek times, 8 MB Buffer and carries a 5 year warranty.

Click here to check it out, and view all the other techincal info.
http://www.wdc.com/products/WD360GD.asp

who will be the first to provide ata 150 on their motherboard?

I don't know who was first, but my "Abit It7 MAX V2" has Serial ATA (ATA 150 and up) Built in, Abit also give you an adapter for which you can use the thin serial ATA cable to conect to regular devices. It has 2 ATA100 IDE channels, 2 ATA133 Raid channels (you don't have to have a raid setup, one CDROM or a one hard drive will work), and it has 2 serial ata conections. But the bad thing about serial ata is that you can only use one cable for one device. So all toghter you can have 10 IDE devices on this mobo.
Its was award best mobo of the year by the way.
I love this mobo!:tup:
Have a look at it here:
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/it7max2v2/
Awards:
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/it7max2v2/reviews.php

Suprised to see the capacity size of these drives,with the current trend you would of expected them to be bigger. Mind you reading between the lines this product is not so much aimed at the casual/SOHO. 5.2ms access time and 5 Years warranty plus 136.9 years predicted MTBF :) WD certainly have faith in their products..

I just found more SATA HD's...

Check out the maxtor here:
http://www.envynews.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4883&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=b9135e5bb678290df6f89dd9de1c8216

And a seagate here:
http://www.envynews.com/review.php?ID=380

I can't wait till the SATA HD's comes out...im gonna buy 2 of the WD's and stick them on Raid 0 (my mobo has built in SATA Raid)

Moving to Consumers forum ...

at last i can use my ATA serial connection on my AT7-MAX2 motherboard,shall certainly check these out,thanx

I also have the Abit board,but from tests I have seen onthe WD SATA drives,they are not much faster than ata100 drives.ZD and I believe Tomshardware both said it wasn't up to the hype.

I've seen synetic tests with not a big difference between ATA100 and ATA150, but in real world testing there was a difference. This kinda negative stuff apeared when ata66 came out...people were saying there's hardly a difference, so they will just stick to ata33....But i don't think anyone will say that now.