New 80Gb SATA Western Digital disc, not working though :(

[webmaster]

Is that Megabyte or Megabit ?

MB = Megabyte
Mb = Megabit

[johneva]

Hia

Well they can go quicker than that too.

Western Digital will be releasing a new Raptor drive in the coming weeks. It'll have a capacity of 150GB, 10,000rpm, NCQ, 16MB Cache, and SATAII 300MB/sec interface. These drives should be very nice performers.
Check out both these links.
http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=2847638
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20051223083509.html

[webmaster]

But if I have two of thoose disks, can I really send data that fast between them?

[johneva]

Well thats the thing though int it,
you need to have other things working at that speed to be able to use it, also you would need the demand for it. Just cos it can go that quick dont mean it will be going that quick.
Though it will still make a difference with that kinda seek time and transfer rate.
Load times for everything will improve also boot times.
At the moment WD Raptors are the only HD's using 10,000 RPM that I know off and seek times are pretty much half the time of everything else.

There is an 74 Gig WD Raptor thats been out for a while now but it does not have some of the new features that are used in this new 150Gb one.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?WD-740GD

[bobopool]

hi
i have sata on my mother board but it not show up in my bios i tryed a sata hard drive and it not reconice it can i get help to use my hard drive on my other ide hard drive i have no trouble using ty very much ..............