| Monday, April 21 2008 |
WD announced today that it is now shipping WD VelociRaptor hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA "Raptor" series of drives. Designed with an enterprise-class foundation, the new WD VelociRaptor hard drive is modified specifically for PC and Mac enthusiasts and professional workstations. Destined to become the new high-performance favorite of these groups, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive comes packed with twice the capacity and a 35 percent performance increase over the previous generation.
From the bloodlines of the WD Raptor, the most popular hard drive for high-performance enthusiasts who demand the ultimate SATA drive, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built with enterprise-class mechanics and packs 300 GB of storage capacity into a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor. The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drive is enclosed in the IcePack, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink -- a customization that fits the drive into a standard 3.5-inch system bay and keeps this powerful drive extra cool when installed in a high-performance desktop chassis.
"Demand for ever-higher PC performance continues to increase and WD is the leader in this category with the WD Raptor. 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," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD's enterprise business unit. "The new WD VelociRaptor delivers the greatest performance and reliability of all SATA hard drives currently on the market."
WD VelociRaptor is the next step up for the speed-craving PC enthusiast, and as with all WD drives, attention to detail in features, performance and reliability is a top priority. Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard drives include:
Source: Western Digital
From the bloodlines of the WD Raptor, the most popular hard drive for high-performance enthusiasts who demand the ultimate SATA drive, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built with enterprise-class mechanics and packs 300 GB of storage capacity into a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor. The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drive is enclosed in the IcePack, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink -- a customization that fits the drive into a standard 3.5-inch system bay and keeps this powerful drive extra cool when installed in a high-performance desktop chassis.
"Demand for ever-higher PC performance continues to increase and WD is the leader in this category with the WD Raptor. 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," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD's enterprise business unit. "The new WD VelociRaptor delivers the greatest performance and reliability of all SATA hard drives currently on the market."
WD VelociRaptor is the next step up for the speed-craving PC enthusiast, and as with all WD drives, attention to detail in features, performance and reliability is a top priority. Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard drives include:
- Killer Speed - Built on the performance of the WD Raptor, these 10,000 RPM drives, with SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and 16 MB cache deliver mind-bending performance.
- Rock-solid Reliability - WD VelociRaptor drives are designed and manufactured to business-critical, enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. The design results in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.
- IcePack Mounting Frame - The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drives are enclosed in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis.
- Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) - Optimizes performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.
- SecurePark - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface, resulting in improved long-term reliability and increased drive protection when the chassis is moved.
Source: Western Digital
User comments
by: Live OR Die
HERE YOU GO I DON"Y THINK THERE VERY BIG IN GB'S
by: Live OR DieSAS =/= SATA
HERE'S SOME THING ELSE I FOULD
You can not use a SAS drive on a SATA controller. You can, however, use a SATA drive on a SAS controller.
by: MusselsI thought all the Cheetahs were SCSI, not IDE.
Seagates cheetahs have always been 15K even on IDE... but they just dont seem popular. i dont know why that is.
by: WeerDoes it do it for $300? No, it does it for $3,000. $300 gets you about 16GB in solid state drives.
Why? The 256GB SSD beats this thing so far into the ground, that you can't hear it's load, thunderous roar anymore.
Very nice. About time they brought these in line with the capacities, to an extent. Price should be a tad lower though.
Not much faster than Samsung spingpoint F1 of 1TB. And much more expensive.
Personally I would get 2 of 750GB on raid 0 as said by others before....
Or to burn more money, two of 1GB and smoke velociraptor.....
Personally I would get 2 of 750GB on raid 0 as said by others before....
Or to burn more money, two of 1GB and smoke velociraptor.....
Whats the "Real" difference only 150 GB more?
by: jbunch07yea i know but i don't really know what the current disk format is called - just called SATA for the simplicity as most (well me) differentiates the two in that way.
sata is just interface...they have ssd with sata interface...
this thing looks nice but i think the future of hdd is solid state imo
by: WarEagleAU+1 on everything you said. Hopefully the prices will fall relatively quickly after the initial explosion of sales dies off....:ohwell:
Very nice. About time they brought these in line with the capacities, to an extent. Price should be a tad lower though.
well with a lot of SAMSUNG spinpoint hard drives starting to give the god ol' raptor a run for their money - Samsung being overly faster, 80% more bang for buck & out performs raptor in most tests its high time that WD came out with something faster to fight the opposition - sadly i have to agree - SSD's are the future - with Samsung also being in the memory market im sure they are way ahead of WD when it comes to getting out some SSD drives.
price a little high for me :P...id rather spend it on something else
nice though
nice though
by: Musselswhoops i put gbps :P
to add more to this, SATA 1 is 150MB/s and sata II is 300MB/s
Even the fastest terabyte drives these days cant keep going at 100MB/s consistently, so even these velociraptors wont break sata-1's specs - SATA-II only really has other features going for it at the moment, not speed.
lolol...
by: twicksistedsome of the marketing crap call it 3Gb/s for sata II. Its because the signal runs at that speed, but only 300MB/s of it is actually there/usable for data transfer (some of it is used for other things)
whoops i put gbps :P
lolol...
finally, since the first day i was asking myself, why the fuck isnt there a WD raptor with sata2?
but SSD are better
but SSD are better
i cant wait to pick one up, little out of my price range atm.
ill wait till its about $200 or so.
ill wait till its about $200 or so.
Oh cool, $1/gig. No thanks, I'll stick with some 500s in raid for about 25c/gig.
I think the majority are waiting for 32-64GB OS drives, and 256GB general purpose drives (games etc)
Dont exactly need these for media, so a 256GB for OS and games + a few 750GB's for storage should go nicely.
Dont exactly need these for media, so a 256GB for OS and games + a few 750GB's for storage should go nicely.