Not ready to go SSD? Then these could fill your need for speed.
Need some serious storage to deliver your data in a hurry but you can't afford to tap into solid state drives yet? Western Digital announced today that it is now shipping VelociRaptor 450GB and 600GB hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA family of hard drives.
The WD VelociRaptor hard drive packs 600 GB of capacity into a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor; but it is also available in the IcePack enclosure, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink.
The new drives run on a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and with a 32MB cache, which WD claims will give it a 15 percent performance boost over previous generation.
MSRP for the WD VelociRaptor 450 GB (model WD4500HLHX) is $299 USD and the 600 GB (model WD6000HLHX) is $329 USD.
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0sanphire , April 9, 2010 2:26 AMI have two of the original 36Gb Raptors coupled into RAID 0 and with out a doubt they were the greatest performance boost I have ever shoved into my rig. They let an aging Athlon XP 2000+ run Vista smoothly. Now I want these puppies, having spent four years keeping my boot drive to 72Gb I could jump to SSD, but twin 450Gb drives to make up just under a Tb that is still blisteringly fast
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can't be ignored - for the next couple of years atleast - these are the smart performance choice! -
0chriscornell , April 7, 2010 10:55 PMI have a Patriot Warp V.2 system disk and a Western Digital 500gb Caviar disk for: games, pr0n, schoolwork, movies etc. I'm going to swap both with a 600Gb Velociraptor very soon. Not that my system isn't fast, but this would just ease my Windows 7 use. Right now I have had to disable: windows search, indexing, prefetch, readyboost, swapfile and more, to avoid too much writing on the SSD-drive. Yeah I'm overly protective, but I'd like the disk to last as long as possible. With A velociraptor as main disk, I could use the SSD-drive for Photoshop and programs like that.
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0jamac666 , April 7, 2010 5:41 PMThese look EPIC!
can't be ignored - for the next couple of years atleast - these are the smart performance choice! 