Actually, it says already the title. I sit in semiprofesionellen and professional environment for about six years, only more plates of the "Raptor", and since they are available, of course, the Velociraptor. For HD video (AVCHD) - and hochbittigen audio interface (24/96), the plates with the best and fastest. Since the Velociraptor generation they again become significantly quieter and cooler. Even more (but also much louder and hotter), there are at present just as SAS. One of my allersten Raptor drives with 74 GB has become recently broken, that it has six years of survived 24/7 use and thus was expected of me life. The other way, the same generation is still living as a "Temp" plate. When I think that a lot of plates no longer after only three years to work reliably, the additional reliability is already alone worth the price.
Meanwhile, in my and assembled by me alone workstations six Velociraptor in the RAID array to be used, and again a few as a single plate. Recently, a Seagate disk of 24/7 ES series has been replaced by a Velociraptor on a video workstation. The increase in performance was simply enormous!
Compared to me also used, even excellent SSD's especially better write rate should be emphasized, even if the read performance and access times of the SSD's (Intel X25-M G2 with TRIM) is of course to settle again significantly higher.
