Western Digital VelociRaptor Hard Drive Reviewed
by Sze | Filed under Storage
ExtremeTech has done a review on Western Digital’s VelociRaptor (model: WD3000GLES) hard drive. VelociRaptor WD3000GLES is a 300GB hard drive with 2.5-inch platters. It has a 10,000 RPM spin speed and connects via the SATA interface. There are 16MB cache.
ExtremeTech‘s comments:
TweetOverall performance is quite good, while write performance is particularly excellent—and likely to be better than most (but not all) solid state drives. However, even at $299, it’s still vastly less expensive than solid state drives of much lower capacity. Given its substantial performance advantage over 7,200RPM drives, we’ll no doubt see these arriving in most enthusiast-class systems and lower-end workstations. For those users, performance trumps capacity for the system drive. After all, you can always add a big 7,200RPM drive (or array) as a secondary drive, if you need capacity.
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