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Western digital launches fastest ever Velociraptor HDD’s

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 02:46 AM PDT

Are u a great fan of storing huge amounts of data and you wish in a short interval of time you could just push in data and not move to SSD’s for the time being.Western Digital announced that it is now shipping VelociRaptor 450GB and 600GB hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA family of hard drives.The WD VelociRaptor hard drive packs 600 GB of capacity into a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor; but it is also available in the IcePack enclosure, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink.The new drives run on a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and with a 32MB cache, which WD claims will give it a 15 percent performance boost over previous generation.

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MSRP for the WD VelociRaptor 450 GB (model WD4500HLHX) is $299 USD and the 600 GB (model WD6000HLHX) is $329 USD.I feel this price will suite only if you are hardcore gamers and consider speed to be the first priority above everything else.So what you can do is go for a 450$ dedicated for OS and games you play and the rest on 2 TB Wd drives.If you take the case of SSD’s, which have Random reads and 4k reads alone make the ssd’s a very viable option.So if you are not yet ready for SSD’s then you can choose between these faster drives.

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