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. The 2.5″ form factor that WD utilizes is 15mm thick compared to the standard 9mm option found in the majority of notebooks. This means the drive will not work in the majority of notebooks available today, although we would not be surprised to see a DTR design utilizing this drive in the high-end market. However, the form factor matches that of Seagate’s Savvio enterprise drives and should easily plug and play where those drives are utilized.
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.
