Quote Originally Posted by GripS View Post
Totally agree with this. The point I was trying to make with my last post is that i'm already on my 3rd RMA for my Raptor. I have no doubt running @ 10,000 rpm's is a significant factor in the failure rate i have experienced. This time i didn't catch it before it went down and I lost a bunch of data i can't get back. I got lazy and didn't backup. Lesson learned.

Bottom line. 20,000 rpm's will be a nightmare for reliability.

Oddly enough the ol IDE 7200 rpm drives in the family rig keep pluggin away just fine. (knocks on wood)


I've had my 74GB raptor for at least 4 years and my 150 for at least two, ive moved them through 3 different systems, each system being on 24/7. no issues here.