Thread: A VelociRaptor at 600 GB Western Digital

Western Digital prepares a new version of its disk drive high performance the VelociRaptor. What progress since the launch of the first Raptor in 2003. These drives have remained for many years of real references, they have responded brilliantly to the application of a computer disk for office.

In the period pre-Raptor, the user choice in search of power was limited between a traditional model, 7200 revolutions per minute and a SCSI solution, very expensive, either in disks or controllers. Only in 2008, with the arrival of the first high-performance SSDs (and cost / capacity acceptable) that the VelociRaptor, the fourth generation of hard drive 10 000 RPM WD signed, are somewhat obsolete.

Today, Western Digital still think there's a market for its records, whether for consumers limited financially and can not earn SSD & HDD, or those for which a 64-128 GB SSD Rate available are simply inadequate. With these prospects in mind, the American firm is currently preparing a new VelociRaptor, which offer a maximum capacity of 600 GB

Contrary to early rumors, there is a speed of 10 000 rpm, however, the two plates are moving from a density of 150 to 300 GB, which should boost the overall performance of the disk. A single-board version (300 GB so) will also be proposed. The amount of cache used by VelociRaptor V2 is unknown, as its interface, although it is likely they will be entitled to Serial ATA to 6 Gb / s. It is not known yet when this new disc will be available and what is the price, it will probably be similar to the 150 GB VelociRaptor its launch, $ 299.