extremetech.com— Western Digital on Thursday announced the Raptor X hard drive, a new product line geared for the modding community.
Jan 5, 2006View in Crawl 4
"How many "modders" do you know that have built their own case, cut up their hard drive and added a window, custom built their own lighted fans, and designed their own lighted cables. Modding is mostly about integration not original design."Just finished my first case build, cut and paint last night...and my lighting components should be here today. :)
I'm just glad they finally upgraded the cache from 8mb to 16mb. Maxtor has had 16mb caches for almost 2 years now and WD's Raptor drives are supposed to be the fastest, yet they were hindered by smaller cache sizes.
i dont think this will sell so well. one of the reason people mod is for bragging rights and custimazation to make it like no other if you sell something thats "hip" or "cool" and everyone has it, why would the modders want it. so if they do buy it they will probably mod that too
neocitronJan 6, 2006
good bye HDDhello flash
edrift101Jan 6, 2006
"How many "modders" do you know that have built their own case, cut up their hard drive and added a window, custom built their own lighted fans, and designed their own lighted cables. Modding is mostly about integration not original design."Just finished my first case build, cut and paint last night...and my lighting components should be here today. :)
rocksea24Jan 6, 2006
I'm just glad they finally upgraded the cache from 8mb to 16mb. Maxtor has had 16mb caches for almost 2 years now and WD's Raptor drives are supposed to be the fastest, yet they were hindered by smaller cache sizes.
roberthJan 6, 2006
Wow seethrough stuff makes you a leet modder. - of course
deeginJan 6, 2006
If the price was the same as it's non-clear counterparts then I could understand. $50 more though? No thanks.
cerberus047Jan 6, 2006
i dont think this will sell so well. one of the reason people mod is for bragging rights and custimazation to make it like no other if you sell something thats "hip" or "cool" and everyone has it, why would the modders want it. so if they do buy it they will probably mod that too