Men put down a HARD DRIVE overclock oui!!

[Spazosaurus]

Yes folks. They took a Seagate 1.5tb hard drive and modified it to almost completely match Western Digital's Velociraptor, saving you about $100us in te process...

Too bad this wasnt already out 8 months ago when I got my velociraptor.

Introduction
As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. The drive specifications are decent and Seagate itself announced that this drive will be able to handle 120 MB/sec sustained transfer rate. All of us know that these rates will not be across the whole drive and were most likely obtained under the best possible conditions. That being said, we still can not overlook the fact that a 1.5 TB drive’s speeds place it directly in the Velociraptor territory. After discovering this astonishing speeds people normally bust out their Western Digital Velociraptor drives and start benchmarking them for comparison. So, what do they get? Velociraptor obviously wins in all categories – max speed, min speed, average speed, access time, you name it and it wins it. At this point they label the Seagate drive as second best and close the case. Of course thats the point, the Seagate drive was not meant to compete with the Velociraptor which is a performance drive and is instead targeted towards good performance and high storage capacity. So end of story right? . . . What if I told you there was a way to modify the 1.5TB Seagate to unleash the hidden beast within. . .

I decided to take the matters a step further. The WD Velociraptor is the largest “Raptor” class drive available on the market with the capacity of 300 GB. Despite the fact that it is the largest out of the lot, you still have a 300 GB drive compete against a drive that is basically five times its size. Normally, the giant will not stand a fighting chance, (look up David and Goliath if you don’t believe me) so I decided to even the fight out a little. What kind of speeds would you get if you were to take the large drive and downsize to the size of the Velociraptor? I decided

[Arcmanov]

Hard...core.  LOL

I bet you feel like selling the 'raptor now eh.

[Spazosaurus]

actually I feel like buying one of them Seagates and trying a lil raid 0

[woodyear99]

Hmm interesting read, I might get one of those Seagates yes but instead of foregoing all the extra HD space would probably just partition the first 300 or so GB  in order to benefit from the faster access times, really need some extra space now that I been downloading the internets.....lol