Raptor 10,000 RPM Drive with MacBook Pro ?

[fab5freddy]

Has Anyone used a Raptor 10,000 RPM drive with a MacBook Pro

and would there be a bottleneck because of the firewire 800 connection to your Macbook Pro ( i guess you could do an eSATA connection instead ? )

 

[yippy]

No one has.

Yes there would be a bottleneck.

Only if you get an eSATA Express card.

 

[fab5freddy]

so if you used an eSATA express card, would there still be a bottleneck compared to the SATA Raptor connection ?

 

[yippy]

In theory, no, there should not be a bottleneck with eSATA. The Raptor has an SATA 1.5Gbps interface and the Express card slot as a 2.5Gbps interface so an eSATA card should be able to provide all the bandwidth needed.

However, this is theoretical and assumes there is no major overhead in the controller cards.

 

[alljunks]

never... raptors are 3.5" .......

 

[yippy]

It doesn't matter how big the drive is if it is in an external case. Which is what this person was asking about.

 

[asdfTT123]

Even if you could do it it would be a very bad idea. Raptors would eat up your battery life like none other and your system would overheat and generate a lot of noise. If you want superior memory performance, get a SSD though they are mad expensive.

 

[fsckminix6]

hes talking about an external drive....

 

[Matiek]

The cases for external hard drives that are capable of esata tend to be plugged in and have their own power supplies. Using sata on my external fillss me with a happiness that I shouldn't feel towards a computer and it only operates at 1.5 gbs

 

[Matiek]

Another thing: A place you will see a bottle neck is with the hard drives cache; especially, after it spools down when you haven't been using it. To minimize that get the raptor with the largest cache possible. I think they make raptors in an 8mb and 16mb flavor but if thety start making a 32mb go for it.