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OEM Hard Drive With Window
SJasperson writes "At last, you don't need to mess around with Dremel tools and Lexan (and destroy your valuable data) to get a clear window in your hard drive. Western Digital has released the Raptor X 150GB SATA hard drive. 10,000 RPM, 4.6ms seek time, 16MB buffer, and, yes, a clear window so you can see what's going on inside. Made out of a special polycarbonate lens with an ESD-dissipative coating, the lens is designed to let case modders and their groupies see the drive platters and heads without sacrificing data integrity."
And coming soon, the first OEM Hard drive where you can literally see your data go bad.
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... what ?
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wasn't that a porn movie you just downloaded ?
Huh, how can you tell ?
Well, I swear the heads started moving faster ?
Yeah - look, the platters are spinning like crazy !
Bzzzzt - bzt bzt bztttt - click clack clack thwack click clack
What was that ?
Er, windows update I think
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They're taking all of the fun out of it! What's the point of modding your case if it doesn't involve power tools and the risk of damage to expensive components?!
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
This product shouldn't be called "Raptor". It should be called "Schrodinger".
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
wow...this is one twisted universe we live in. :)
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...And just let some flunky with a laser pointer come by and screw up all my data? You must be shrooming!
Ooooooohhhh! Spinny AND shiny!
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a clear window so you can see what's going on inside.
What, the spinning?
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Kingston is planning to release ram modules with a window by Q2 2006
... before some case modders opens one of these to replace the clear window with some opaque material?
please excuse my apathy
The title scared me , buy a OEM drive and it has Windows on it!
does this guy work for WD now?
i for one DON'T welcome our new windowed hdd overlords because it would give me a very uncomfortable feeling to have windows at hardware level!
Every gamer/case-modder under the sun will now only purchase the Raptor.
Oh yeah, this will be perfect for my Schrödinger Box.
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Can I HEAR the click of death, now I can SEE it.
Great....I wonder what 200 gigs of Tara Patrick videos being lost looks like...
Troubleshooting chart
1) Head not moving - drive dead.
2) Head moving too much - not enough memory.
3) Head lying at bottom of case - drive broken.
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Problems like finding lost files, damaged partition tables, and fragmentation! Is that grub installed in the MBR, or lilo? Now we'll be able to look and find out!
I think it would be awesome if you could fit an aquarium in there.
Isn't it funny that my case has windows, now my hard drives will have windows, but not contained within either is Windows®?
Better a hard disk with a window in it than a hard disk with Windows on it.
You still running DOS?
C-x C-s C-x k
Now that seeing the spinning disk is easy, how long before they start putting visible (but magnetically transparent) images like this on them?
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Like Crystal Pepsi?
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Don't even get me started on women's fashions...
I'd like to see windows in women's fashion - the internals are far more interesting.
I know it used to be that mounting a drive vertically used to shorten the lifespan of the drive
That's because until the invention of stickier platters, all the bits would eventually drift down to the bottom of a platter, thus causing it to wobble out of balance.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Now you just need a transparent cat
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Whoosh.
Rumor has it they developed a DVD writer with a window, but nobody has seen it (twice).
It's already there, as long as you don't look for it.
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