Quote Originally Posted by Swatrecon_ View Post
My 10K Raptor is loud enough. We don't need this. It's a waste of engineering, they should focus on making 7.2K RPM drives as fast as possible before they get phased out by SSD's altogether.
2.5" VR 10k Drives are very quiet. In fact I can barely hear them unless they are seeking.

And their Access times are head and shoulders better than any 7200rpm drive i've tried.

The 2.5" SAS 15k rpm drives I use (at work) are not extremely loud either, if you ask me WD should have started by slapping a SATAII / NCQ interface on a 15k RPM 2.5" mechanicals and sold that as a stop gap instead of the VR.

6ms access times would have dropped to about 4ms and you'd probably be doing burst reads @ the capped bandwidth of SATAII and sustained not too far behind.