I don't think I understand: "The OCZ averaged read speeds of over 140MB/s and was writing at 87MB/s while the WD topped out at around 136MB/s read and 134MB/s write times."
Wouldn't that mean that the ratio of Read-to-Write is still better with the WD VelociRaptor? 4Mb/s extra read time isn't all that impressive when it writes at nearly half the speed of the WD.
This is a laptop grade drive going head to head with one of the fastest desktop drives out there, and it's pretty much a toss-up. That's a HUGE gain for laptop drives, it's almost unbelievable.
I soooo want one, but I will be patient and wait until they are built into a new Mac laptop. I can't help but think a little OS support for these in the SATA drivers will make them even faster, plus that "delay" thing yuri mentioned needs to be cleared up.
Obviously SATA wasn't made for this technology. For example, the SATA drivers were never tested with near-zero access times - I can imagine there are pretty big improvements to be had if they were optimized for that.
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I don't think I understand:
"The OCZ averaged read speeds of over 140MB/s and was writing at 87MB/s while the WD topped out at around 136MB/s read and 134MB/s write times."
Wouldn't that mean that the ratio of Read-to-Write is still better with the WD VelociRaptor? 4Mb/s extra read time isn't all that impressive when it writes at nearly half the speed of the WD.
Gonna have to say FAIL to the OCZ.
This is a laptop grade drive going head to head with one of the fastest desktop drives out there, and it's pretty much a toss-up. That's a HUGE gain for laptop drives, it's almost unbelievable.
I soooo want one, but I will be patient and wait until they are built into a new Mac laptop. I can't help but think a little OS support for these in the SATA drivers will make them even faster, plus that "delay" thing yuri mentioned needs to be cleared up.
Obviously SATA wasn't made for this technology. For example, the SATA drivers were never tested with near-zero access times - I can imagine there are pretty big improvements to be had if they were optimized for that.
Ah ok. Didn't realize it was laptop hardware. That is good then. :) Thanks for clearing that up.