As the tech world tends towards faster, professional, reliable and competitive hard drives, Western Digital came to fulfill these demands with the brand new VelociRaptor, the fastest to date among the Raptor series of drives, created especially for PC, Mac and workstations.

The latest creation of the Raptor series is a 10,000 RPM SATA, 300 GB drive that offers a 35 percent performance increase and is actually a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor comprised in a 3,5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink.

Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of Western Digital’s enterprise business unit, said in a statement: “We created WD VelociRaptor hard drives to lead PC enthusiasts into the next era of PC and Mac storage performance and satisfy their insatiable thirst for computing speed,” adding that the VelociRaptor delivers the greatest performance and reliability of all the SATA hard drives on the market today.

The VelociRaptor addresses all PC enthusiasts with its “killer speed,” its “rock-solid reliability,” its “IcePack mounting frame,” its “Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF)” and its “SecureParck,” the company said.

“Demand for ever-higher PC performance continues to increase and WD is the leader in this category with the WD Raptor,” McDorman said in his statement.

What this means for the VelociRaptor is in fact a 10,000 RPM drive, with a SATA 3Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache, the highest availability rating of any SATA drive before it at 1.4 million hours MTBF, an optimized performance and an improved long-term reliability and increased drive protection.

Western Digital unveiled that the VelociRaptor models will become available on Alienware’s ALX gaming desktop by the end of April. The company also unveiled that the hard drives will become available through the company’s online store and at select distributors by mid-May, for a suggested retail price of $299.99 USD.