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Conclusion
Overall the rocket drive is the best in I/O performance I have seen.
It outperforms U160 SCSI drives by almost a factor of two. Yet there
are some drawbacks to the Rocket drive, foremost is the price, although
listed at the end of the review is some alternative pricing options
to make it less expensive. And the rocket drive can not act as a
boot drive. Also, if you have some extra money to spend, you can
use multiple rocket drives in parallel.
PRO's:
SPEED, SPEED, and more speed.
Easy installation
Uses Standard SDRAM
CON's:
Price, its pricey, but if you can afford it, buy it!
Can't boot off the card yet.
Finding a short card, or open PCI slot for the card.
Performance:
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(5 out of 5) |
Installation:
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(5 out of 5) |
Price:
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(2 out of 5) |
Overall:
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(4 out of 5) |
(Overall score is not an average of above scores)
Now for some more good news. Visit the forums
for some information on how to save money with a special deal with
Cenatek, just for 3d Retreat readers.
Here are the MSRP pricing for the rocket drives.
Rocket Drive DL (no memory)
$399 USD RDB-000-M, 512 MB Rocket Drive
$599 USD RDB-001-G, 1 GB Rocket Drive
$699 USD RDB-002-G, 2 GB Rocket Drive
$799 USD RDB-004-G, 4 GB Rocket Drive
Rocket Drive Standard (with memory)
$999 USD RDS-000-M, 512 MB Rocket Drive
$1,799 USD RDS-001-G, 1 GB Rocket Drive
$2,999 USD RDS-002-G, 2 GB Rocket Drive
$4,999 USD RDS-004-G, 4 GB Rocket Drive
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