Western Digital intros superfast 2.5″ drive
Western Digital on Monday unveiled what it is terming the world’s fastest SATA hard drive, a 10,000-rpm model aimed at the enthusiast PC and professional workstation markets. WD’s new WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drive provides up to 300 Gbytes capacity, and is based on the company’s enterprise-class drive technology. The drive is enclosed in WDC’s IcePack. IcePack is a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink which the Lake Forest, Calif.-based storage vendor said fits in a standard 3.5-inch system bay and provides extra cooling for high-performance desktop PC and workstation applications.
The new WD VelociRaptor hard drives’ performance comes from its 10,000-rpm speed, a 3-Gbytes-per-second SATA interface, and a built-in 16-Mbyte cache. The company said the drives have a mean time between failure (MTBF) rate of 1.4 million hours. Also included are such SATA features as rotary acceleration feed forward to optimize performance in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis, and SecurePark, which parks the heads off the disk surface while the drive is spinning up, spinning down, and off to ensure that the head never touches the disk surface, the company said. The drives are expected to be available through WD distributors and solution providers starting in mid-May with a suggested list price of $299.99.
Source: CRN
sweet! cant wait
for one the specs for this makes it look slow and there is not much space also the price is high. they should have done a 32MB cache. Seagate has better harddrives. I have one with 500GB 32MB cache and it only costed me about $200. Western digital causes nothin but problems I would never use a drive from them.
Wow..everything is getting smaller and smaller yet at the same power or more powerful.
dont think i’ll swap my cheetah ultra 320’s for one
#2 Slow?. 3GB/s?.
The most I can get from a Raptor drive is 60MB/s!
@3 “smaller and smaller” ???
2.5 has been the standard size for L/tops for yonks … the only thing that may be of use is hopefully better? access times from the faster spin speed (in theory) and a better transfer rate would help …
@2 doesn’t seem impressed by the specs, any one got a link?
Okay.. Will be a major heat issue with this one. My WD 5,400 RPM is still fast enough for me, no problems in Assassin’s Creed or CoD4 so far.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459
Transfer rate: 120 MB/s
Ok, now that’s more credible
Might consider putting this in my PS3
tHx 4 da link pKt……..prec pAbLo
@Keito:
That wouldn’t serve much use; the majority of PS3 games are still stored on the Blu Ray disc so you’re not going to see a massive improvement even if placing this in the PS3 would work. (WD already stated this isn’t going to work in laptops, for example)
Only SSD
@6 “Okay.. Will be a major heat issue with this one. My WD 5,400 RPM is still fast enough for me, no problems in Assassin’s Creed or CoD4 so far.”
Did you actually read the article?
“The drive is enclosed in WDC’s IcePack. IcePack is a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink which the Lake Forest, Calif.-based storage vendor said fits in a standard 3.5-inch system bay and provides extra cooling for high-performance desktop PC and workstation applications.”
So you actually will need a 3.5 inch bay, and not 2.5
since the whole size with the icepack actually is 3.5 inches..
Somehat misleading really
wanna see some real life tests on these things in a raid setup. a pair of raptors pwn, wanna see if its worth the upgrade
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html
Me like me buy
I overclocked my HD to 50,000rpm and i added an additional quad core to make a duo-quad core. Basically it means i have the best PC around
OH YEA!
Well modded 4 64 gig SDD as the cache for each of my 4 velociraptor’s and added dual 80 core intel research models with optic transfers!
My graphics cards are 4 Nvidia 10000 X2 models.
#5 said: “#2 Slow?. 3GB/s?.
The most I can get from a Raptor drive is 60MB/s!”
Where do get 3Gigabytes per second? The highest SATA II specs go is 300 Megabytes per second or 3 Gigabits per second.
promises all we get are promises