Thanks to advances in production technology, compared to just a few years can be purchased today for less that solid-state drives SSDs, because of their high cost compared with traditional discs currently are far from being the industry standard.

NAND flash memory chips in parallel with fluctuations in the price per gigabyte as production costs compared to traditional disk is much higher SSDs common among end-users and mechanical disks can replace the need for a few years more as we have seen. However, analysis of the many, many reports are prepared, solid state drives in the future to replace our computers and be used as the standard storage drive is taking it forward.

All these predictions in the context of next generation storage solutions for many companies has plastered arms. Intel, like Samsung and Toshiba produce their own chips capable of companies in the SSD market a chance to see very much, while Western Digital and Seagate drives, such as in the production of mechanically guiding the industry firms, institutional requirements even for entry to the SSD market is doing and in time enter the consumer market in this area also to play leadership It is known that they want.

The biggest advantage of solid-state drive is available for development, namely physical barriers in mechanical disk rotational speed, and unlike SSD drives plate attached to it, such as noise performance, the physical boundaries are no obstacle to the development. Of course, when the case is already a high-speed SSD drive was introduced to the marketplace, and even more quickly on the road because we have seen in 28nm process technology will be prepared with the NAND flash memory chips due to their speed of reading and writing seriously is expected to increase. SSD drives so fast So when is the latest situation in the traditional disk?

Without any problem in terms of capacity, even with high-density new plates and over 3 terabyte of new models also expected to be launched in the HDD market, performance-oriented model work continues. Contrary to some analysts, high-speed disk drive manufacturers will not cut off from the hope that performance may be competitive for the segment for the new model continue to work behind closed doors. Raptor series with the end-user oriented solutions with the fastest disk is Western Digital, the new generation Raptor is preparing to challenge the model with SSD drive.

Western Digital announced for the first time in 2003 with the Raptor series earlier in 7200 rpm limit attached to the front of the hard disk was open and end users for high-speed storage drives that provide was one of the first manufacturers. 10,000 RPM rotational speed, such as license plate that has a very high demand from drivers and the resulting constant high sales figures have been developed and VelociRaptor family's fourth generation Raptor as a representative was available to the market.

By Western Digital VelociRaptor the fastest SATA drive as shown by many of the SSD drive was a nightmare, especially in entry and mid-segment to take a much higher price tag despite having left behind some had managed to SSDs. VelociRaptor'ın price, performance, and offer the right balance between capacity stating that Western Digital, 5 For generation Raptor has plaster arms. $ 250 lık with foreign sales price 300GB'lık Raptor, for example, $ 700 'price tag for lık Vertex OCZ SSD drive 250GB'lık approximately 1 / 3 for the price of being sold.Between SSD and HDD's has a special position as the fifth generation of the Raptor family much more than being prepared to offer.

According to information we receive in the fifth-generation Raptor 10,000 rpm, but will work in a much higher compared to previous models, will provide storage capacity. Enabling a new generation of high data density of the pair of plates and the new generation Raptor will also offer the Western Digital 600GB of storage, high-performance storage capacity will increase with the amount of cache memory.

No explanation by the company or any official confirmation has been made even if the amount of cache memory is 64MB can be claimed. Another offering plate with a single Raptor 300GB capacity model, more work on the Wester Digital's plan to offer this solution after 600GB'lık model that is also spoken among details. In the past month to be remembered Seagate 64MB memory capacity, SATA-III was introduced to the market supported Barracuda XT drive. Similarly, Western Digital's high-speed data transfer up to 6Gbps'ye also promised to make the transition to the SATA-II interface is expected.

Although not yet a clear knowledge Raptor fifth-generation model with a similar price level 300GB'lık VelociRaptor will be available for sale.