HD Tach 3.01
MTRON 32GB MSP 7000
Western Digital Raptor 150GB
Our HD Tach test results heavily favor the MTRON unit in all aspects except the burst rates. The MTRON's sustained transfer rate of 108.5MB/sec is about 43% better than the WD Raptor drive at 75.5MB/sec. The biggest difference is the MTRON drive holds the 108MB/sec transfer rate across the entire drive while the Raptor progressively decreases to around 52MB/sec at the end of the drive. The previous MTRON STR results were 95.1MB/sec, which is about 13% slower than the new drive. The burst rates of the Raptor at 128.8MB/sec are slightly higher than the 115.7MB/sec rates on the MTRON drive, but burst rates are not nearly as large of a factor as other indicators. Access times greatly favors the MTRON drive at .1ms compared to 8.4ms on the Raptor drive.
HD Tune 2.54
MTRON 32GB MSP 7000
Western Digital Raptor 150GB
The difference is slightly lower overall with HD Tune versus HD Tach, but the story remains the same. In our HD Tune test, the Raptor's sustained transfer rate of 72.1MB/sec is around 30% lower than the MTRON MSP 7000 SSD drive at 102.8MB/sec. More importantly is the fact that the MTRON drive again holds the 102MB/sec transfer rate across the entire drive while the Raptor progressively decreases to 50.4MB/sec at the end of the drive. The previous MTRON STR results were 90.8MB/sec, which is about 12% slower than the new drive. The burst rates of the Raptor at 100.6MB/sec are about 12% better compared to the MTRON unit. Access time greatly favors the MTRON.
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JarredWalton - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
Well, "perfect" if you don't mind spending as much as what a good midrange PC would cost for just 32GB of storage. :)drank12quartsstrohsbeer - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
Is WD planning any new raptor drives?Gary Key - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
Yes and no, we know they have larger capacity Raptors in the labs along with improved read and write speeds, but nothing officially has been announced or even hinted about the release of this product.retrospooty - Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - link
WD doesnt discuss upcoming releases, and us usually really tight with leaks. Typically there is near zero info then, a public announcement. - but I have heard rumors of a larger. I expect they will release on Jan 1st, like the Raptor 150 2 years earlier. Probably 300+ megs and 32meg buffer with parrallel storage capabilities. That would put it back on top of any magnetic drives.Maybe even a hybrid version would be cool - thats not a rumor I heard, just a thought I had.
Etern205 - Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - link
Raptors right now run on the SATA 150 interface and it's still faster than all other HD which runs on the SATA 3G interface.IF the new Raptor is ever going to run on the SATA 3G interface then I'll like to have a retest.
retrospooty - Thursday, December 6, 2007 - link
the larger storage density, larger cache and parrallel data storage will give it more of a boost than 3gb SATA will, but I would presume it will have that as well.Etern205 - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
Imagine SSD Raptors! o_omagreen - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
I want to see the quad-core overclocked GTX version!Lifted - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
Imagine SSD Cheetah's! Makes just as little sense, so why not aim high?Etern205 - Monday, December 3, 2007 - link
Because I doubt Cheetahs will be made for SATA since their currently running on SCSI.