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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.
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