Western digital being one of the companies going in the record of being the company that goes and ups for fast Hard-drives, with the production of the Raptor. Being one fast of a HDD, with a Clearview mirror to see how fast the thing can go, but in some cases, you can see a strange fog coming in the glass, is because it run in very hot when stress tested for a while and also having it operational a long period of time. With Western going only with the drive about 320Gb space and an expensive GB/cent mark, this can make it one of the crazies buy in all (not in a good way).
With the Raptor being old now, they try to put it in its grave and make a much better one, the new VelociRaptor. With the size of about 2.5in hard-drive form factor and a maximum speed is 10000rpm, can make this HDD fast in seek times for the needle having a short time to move in the disc, with not being going to fit a 3.5in disk tray they added a external heat sink to accommodate the extra space needed to fix the 3.5in bay. With a cooler built in, it can be a good heat disperses in the Hard-drive making it cool and very fast.
With the HDD have a price tag of $300 or lower in the internet, and a small drive space of about the same as the Raptor, which is 320GB you keep on thinking, should I buy it? Well t is a yes or a no for me. For the reason it is the fastest HDD in the market and no is the introduction of SSD will replace the old disc type drives. But for a while Hard-drives can still be much cheaper and have no problems with writing a million times while the SSD (Solid State Drive) have a 10000 write limit, like a USB.
For the performance, it is considered as a fast drive and took advantage of the SATAII 3 GB/s interface also one of the fast random seek time of 7.6ms. With the RAID 0 interface with both VelociRaptors can make is a fast way to install and place a lot of files in a matter of seconds.
