Fact: one Raptor is faster than a RAID-0 array Hardware Roundup By Désiré Athow: Wednesday 08 February 2006, 08:48 TOM'S HARDWARE answers one of the questions I asked the first time I saw the new WD Raptors - are they quicker than two normal RAID-0 SATA HDDs. Well the answer is a resounding yes. Apparently, they are quicker, less noisier, cooler and definitely more reliable than having two Seagate SATA drive in RAID-0. Now I have to wonder whether they are faster than two 15K SCSI Drives in RAID-0. Anyone has the answer? For those of you who are still longing to know whether the best of ATI can beat the best of Nvidia, please take note. Game PC has tested two X1900XT in Crossfire against two 7800GTX 512MB in SLI. Both Rig have also been overclocked and there's also some extreme power settings used like 8x FSAA + 16x AF at 16x12. Gorgeous photos and a well written review overall. GamePC sees Nvidia's solution as being better overall. French website Overclex compares eight GPU coolers available on the market. Traditional coolers, Passive ones as well as a water cooler have been tested. There are some good surprises and some very great buys. At the end of the day, it will depend on your affinities and whether you want to live with noise and overclock or not. Digit-life tested the very high end of Gigabyte's line of motherboard. The G1975x is based on the i975x chipset which is Crossfire compatible as well as hmmmmm SLI compatible it seems. Amongst some eye catching features are the two huge fan tunnels on both sides of the CPU socket, a Creative Sound Blaster Live 24-bit sound module - supporting Dolby Digital, Dual BIOS, 4-phase switching voltage regulator and some very good performance. EverythingUSB has a review of the IPEVO Free-1 USB Phone which is both Mac and PC compatible. It is also Skype Certified and also slightly overpriced, it is quite stylish and simple. So simple that it does not come with any LCD screen and looks more like that old phone of mine that cost £2 on ebay. Expect a posher version, version 2.0 to come out soon with a screen at least. Old favorite computer shopper - US version - has a review of hand crafted computers. Beautiful but expensive beasts. You'd probably never hear of those brands. AAC LiquidXS ATI Crossfire, NiveusMedia Media Center, Overdrive Torque.SLI and Puget Liquid Cooled SLI. At More than $5000 for the cheapest of them, you should be careful about your choices. µ
WD raptor 4 rum ông anh Imax có test thử có thể vào box review tham khảo http://www.amtech-vn.com/showthread.php?t=10268 nhanh hơn hitachi 7200 có 2 MB /s thôi ............... tốc đọ khỏang xấp xỉ 55 MB/s còn raid mới đạt 100 Mb/s Lạy thằng tom này quá ....................
đúng là raptor mà chạy raid 0 thì trùm :D , nhưng chạy single thì khó mà hơn raid 0 được , nếu hơn chắc cũng xêm xêm mấy ổ 2 MB cache là cùng !
