Comparable sized ssd/performance to WD raptor?

[Jayllo]

Was looking for something moderate performance but spacious like 1tb or so.

Are there any largish SSDs that are roughly comparable in price to a raptor?

I've only used Intel SSDs and don't know much about the other controllers/brand.

 

[GotNoRice]

Not much market for them anymore. People either buy SSDs for speed or regular HDDs for storage. A Raptor isn't good at either, comparativly speaking.

 

[Jayllo]

Gotcha, I know the market for them is shrinking but I have some largish VMs I don't need much performance on but I hear them crunching away on 7200rpm drives and its annoying.

Can't use 15k SAS drives b/c its in a mac pro and supposedly you can't mix sas and sata with the add in raid.

 

[ToddW2]

A raptor is much better than a standard 7200rpm but not really close at all to SSD performance (or price).

 

[GotNoRice]

Short-stroke a pair of 7200rpm drives and raid-0 the short-stroked partitions, that should get you raptor level performance at least.