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Shell Shocker deal. (http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=ShellShocker-_-22-136-557-_-10032011_1)

Great buy if anybody has been looking for a high-RPM drive.

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that drive is the exact opposite of the drive a miner would want.. if he even wanted a hard drive at all.

cheap low power green drives or USB flash drives. those are the drives for miners.

All hardware is welcome well suited or not :P anyway miners do build computers for other things on occasion

You're right, this isn't something any of us would particularly want in a mining rig. Although we're mostly miners, I'd be willing to bet a good percentage of the forum members would also consider themselves to be PC enthusiasts in general, and while this drive might not suit a mining setup, it may fit well into someones plans for, say, a gaming rig. Simply sharing the opportunity for anyone who might want it.

+1 If I had any excuse to buy this I would but I don't need any more space. I think between all the hard drives I have I have about 4 or 5 terabytes of space.

if I really want speed, SSD is my option.

Otherwise, I'd buy a large hd (from 1 to 3T) which still gives me a decent speed.

ahh gotcha. wasnt sure if you had some misconception as to what a mining rig needed for storage.

me, Im a SSD for OS/productivity, medium speed spinner for games, huge capacity slow spinner for media  kinda guy. that would be sweet for a games drive.

nice find.

ssd's are still super expensive you could raid 0 two of those and I'm sure you wont notice a difference. So $240 you'd have 900 gb for a $240 ssd you would have 128 gb.

I would rather have the SSD.   Latency is what matters not peak sequential throughput for most uses.  128GB is fine for putting OS, application, and games (although if I were buying one today I likely would look for 240GB models).  10K RPM creates a lot of heat, noise, and electrical draw but doesn't do much for latency.

For games & OS most of access is going to be random reads and that is where SSD shine.

Except for the fact SSD's are horribly unreliable right now. I cant mention how many times Ive had to do data recovery on them in our shop, they currently leave a bad taste in my mouth and would go w/ normal HDD's any day currently...
Other than that, you guys are right =P

Guess maybe it varies by brand/model.  I have 2 SSD.  One for nearly 4 years, one for about 2.5.  Neither has given me any problem.  Not a single byte lost.

Then again even if it failed there really isn't any data recovery the way I use them.  I use SSD for os & applications.  User data is stored on a pair of 1TB RAID1 storage drivers.  Nice thing about Windows Vista/7 is applications are finally moving away from storing user data in program files folder structure.  It also makes wiping the OS and re-installing much easier.  Nothing to backup, nothing to save.

So I wouldn't say horribly unreliable.  Looking at newegg ratings I think if they were "horrible unreliable" we would see a lot more low ratings.  People tend to get pissed when they lose everything.

I've been wanting to get my hands on a good SSD for a while now. The technology keeps improving at a surprising rate, even for computer hardware, and the current generation has some amazing specs. Couldn't help but posting the link to the Raptor drives though, as I can remember a couple years back, before SSDs were as commercially viable as they are now, drooling over the prospect of RAIDing two or more 10kRPM drives for my boot/gaming drive. I wonder if, say, four of these in a RAID 0 would offer any performance advantage over current generation SSDs, or if the technology has been completely surpassed by SSD tech.