Fastest Hard Drive?

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w0rmh0lez

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What's the fastest hard drive? I'm not talking about hybrid drives or ssds I'm talking about traditional drives. Also why don't they make Velociraptors anymore?
 
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MauveCloud
Where did you get the idea that they don't make Velociraptors anymore? I see 17 Velociraptor models listed at pcpartpicker:
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#t=10000,10500,15000&qq=1
So I think you're mistaken about that. As far as fastest purely mechanical hard drive, look at this page:
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/the-best-gaming-hard-drives/

@festerovic the press release you linked describes a hybrid drive, which the OP specifically excluded from the question.
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festerovic

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They still sell Raptors on newegg...never heard that they stopped making them.

These guys claim the fastest HDD: nm, its a SSHD
http://www.seagate.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/Seagate-unveils-enterprise-turbo-sshd-pr-master/

edit: so shame much embarass
 
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MauveCloud

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Where did you get the idea that they don't make Velociraptors anymore? I see 17 Velociraptor models listed at pcpartpicker:
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#t=10000,10500,15000&qq=1
So I think you're mistaken about that. As far as fastest purely mechanical hard drive, look at this page:
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/the-best-gaming-hard-drives/

@festerovic the press release you linked describes a hybrid drive, which the OP specifically excluded from the question.
 
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skit75

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You may be sacrificing some capacity for real HDD speed. When you start to consider seek times and such... platter size comes into the equation at some point. My WD 640GB drive was a fairly fast HDD at the time of purchase 5 years ago because it only had 2 platters of 320GB in size. This probably still applies to your search.

I also had a couple WD Velociraptor 74GB hard drives back in the day. I never bought into the 150GB or 300GB versions though. The speeds they hit aren't that noticeable in gaming anyway to be honest, compared to a typical 7200RPM HDD.
 
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